Re: [xml] libxml questions

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:15:32PM -0700, Jain, Nilesh wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 3:07 PM
> > To: Jain, Nilesh
> > Cc: xml gnome org
> > Subject: Re: [xml] libxml questions
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:34:08AM -0700, Jain, Nilesh wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:34:48PM -0700, Jain, Nilesh wrote:
> > > > > No, I got it.. its working.. but the oldest tarball I see there is
> > > > > 2.6.20 so having problem running against the libxml2 which is
> > > currently
> > > > > shipped with the distro, most of them are still on 2.6.17... and
> no
> > > test
> > > > > tarball available for that..  Are these test forward compatible I
> > > mean
> > > > > can I run 2.6.17 test against 2.6.22 libxml2?
> > > >
> > > >  it probably won't work:
> > > >    - because the API extended
> > > >    - because testing schemas regression tests on older releases
> won't
> > > >      work either.
> > >
> > > Can you help me understand why schemas regression tests won't work on
> > > older release. Is it because of schema change.. or something else.
> >
> >  Incredibly hard to implement fully.
>
> Is there any design/architecture document on external/internal
> regression test cases.. I would like to understand the what
> functionality these test cases test? if it is something we should have
> for distro to confirm the ABI.. then want to understand the
> architecture/structure so that I will be able to integrate with LSB
> runtime test suite.

  The closest is the xmlschemas-dev w3 org and
public-xml-schema-testsuite w3 org archives at W3C (especially Kasimier
posts about it), I think there is a page at W3C too but I can't find it right
now.

Daniel

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