At 8:55 am -0500 2/2/04, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>After I've canonicalized, a straight text diff or binary compare can 
>find any differences. No fancy infoset comparisons are necessary. My 
>plan, if I can find a reliable tool, is just to generate some 
>canonicalized output from various input, then compare that output to 
>the output of my own canonicalizer to see if it's working correctly 
>or not. Given the current state of these tools and the lack of a 
>normative test suite I wouldn't be surprised if some of the 
>differences I turn up are bugs in the independent canonicalizer, so 
>I'll have to check each difference manually against the spec. 
>However, I should eventually be able to generate a reasonable test 
>suite for canonical XML by comparing enough independent 
>implementations and using the spec to figure out whose right when 
>they disagree.

That makes sense, and is nice and simple. I had imagined these tools 
were more advanced! I guess this means not many people are using 
canonicalizers commercially.

Robin

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