From: Bob Gustafson <bobgus@...>
Date: 2001-11-26T15:55:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26487] Re: [ANN] NQXML v1.1.3; Maki number up to 90.9% conformity

TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@inac.co.jp> wrote on 26 Nov 2001 13:56:19 +0900
>Hi,
>
>Jim Menard <jimm@io.com> wrote:
>> NQXML version 1.1.3 has increased its conformity from 87.7% to 90.9% by
>> improving the implementation of the ENTITY tag. I hereby propose we call
>> this percentage an XML parser's "Maki number".
>
>:-)
>
..
>By the way, I tried Negative Test(parsing not-well-formed XML
>documents and checking whether parser raises error), NQXML cannot
>parse some documents(infinite looping).
>
> * entity reference without semi-colon
>   (xmlconf/ibm/not-wf/P68/ibm68n02.xml)
> * recursive references in ENTITY
>   (xmlconf/xmltest/not-wf/sa/075.xml)
>
>
>Regards,
>
>TAKAHASHI Masayoshi (maki@inac.co.jp)

It would be difficult to assign a (maki) number to the Negative Test
results, since there are an infinite number of Negative Tests to perform.

Unless someone would construct a (finite) subset of these tests.

Maybe your set of Negative Tests would be a good start.

BobG