XInclude Test Suite

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

XInclude is a generic mechanism that is used to merge XML documents. XInclude uses elements, attributes and URI references which are existing XML constructs.

Conformance tests can be used by developers, content creators, and users alike to increase their level of confidence in product quality. In circumstances where interoperability is necessary, these tests can also be used to determine that differing implementations support the same set of features.

This report provides supporting documentation for all of the tests contributed by members of the W3C XML Core Working Group. Sources from which these tests have been collected include: ; . It is anticipated that this report will supplement the actual tests.

2. Test Case Description

This section of this report contains descriptions of test cases, each test case includes a binary test. The test suite consists of a series of simple binary conformance tests, whereby a processor is deemed either to accept (a positive test) or reject (a negative test) the test. An expected result document is provided for the positive tests to compare the output of the processor with the reference file. Expected results are as accurate as possible, it is conceivable that a few files may diverge somewhat from the testcase description, however the idea is still captured. Negative tests are intended to identify expected errors as defined by the specification. Negative test are not accompanied by expected results.

For an implementation to claim conformance it must pass all positive and negative testcases, which means that the implementation performed exactly as expected.

A description for each test is presented in the following table as well as a section identifier from the XInclude recommendation and the Collection from which the test was originated. The test description is intended to have enough detail to evaluate diagnostic messages. Given the Test ID and the Collection, each test can be uniquely identified.

4. Contributors (Non-normative)

A team of volunteer members have participated in the development of this work. Contributions have come from:

• Sandra I. Martinez, NIST
• Daniel Veillard, Red Hat Network
• John Evdemon, FourThought
• Richard Tobin, University of Edinburgh
• Henry S. Thompson, University of Edinburgh
• Elliotte Rusty Harold