On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 09:42 -0500, Eliot Kimber wrote:
I've started doing work with XSLT 2 and I'm finding that, with the new
built-in function mechanism in XSLT 2, along with all the new built-in
functions string processing and what not, that I'm writing more
XSLT-level functions that I have in the past (in the past I would tend
to write these functions as Java extension functions).
I haven't pushed on it, but it would be ideal if there was some way to
apply the sort of introspection approach that JUnit uses--that is, have
a transform that processes itself in order to find the test case
templates and run them, reporting success or failure. But I don't think
there's any way to do this directly (because there's no evaluate()
function in standard XSLT.
Any ideas about how best to proceed?
Definately not 'how best'. Maybe some ideas though.
Given a stylesheet that you import into others,
as a collection of your xslt functions.
Add a template, called if some param = some specific value,
which then proceeds to exercise the functions from that template?
In Python my main is simply there for test purposes.
I can normally do the same in Java for most classes.
Its a case of developing an approach that is generally applicable and
meets your needs?
How about using a single, given input XML file as the test input data.
Use that to trigger testing, then its content to exercise the
functions using the test templates? Yes, a little wasteful,
but I like the TDD approach.
regards DaveP.
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