From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2001-11-23T05:56:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26178] NQXML Conformance (was Re: Conformance Test of XML Parsers in Ruby(20011122))

TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@inac.co.jp> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I tried to test conformace of XML parsers in Ruby, using
> XML 1.0 Test suite by OASIS.

[snip]
> The result is as follows.
> 
> 
>   XMLParser(0.6.1):  100.0%(438/438)
>   NQXML(1.1.2):       87.7%(384/438)

I've looked at what kind of errors these are. For XML, they fall into two
classes: ENTITY tags and multi-byte characters. I will attack ENTITY tags
next, since they account for approximately 36 of the 54 errors that NQXML
produces.

Multi-byte characters are another problem. How should I handle character
references like "&D7A3;" when Ruby can't handle that character? Is there
any way that NQXML can reach 100.0% conformance?

Jim
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