From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2001-11-26T23:26:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26515] Re: [ANN] NQXML v1.1.3; Maki number up to 90.9% conformity

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

> 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".
> 
> :-)
> 
> UENO-san also fixed XMLScan's bugs in XML declaration and so on
> (he reported on [ruby-list:32520] in Japanese).
> 
> 
> 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

Thank you. I plan to start attacking the negative tests eventually.

Jim
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