On Mon, Dec 17 2007 11:55:55 +0000,
andrew(_dot_)j(_dot_)welch(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com wrote:
On 17/12/2007, Tony Graham
<Tony(_dot_)Graham(_at_)menteithconsulting(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 14 2007 12:31:37 +0000,
andrew(_dot_)j(_dot_)welch(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com wrote:
...
You mention black box testing under the unit test heading... which
doesn't quite fit.
Personally I don't think you can unit test XSLT*, it's only really
worthwhile to test the output for a given set of inputs.
Which is the sense in which I used "black box".
It's not "unit testing" then... surely?
I didn't say that it was unit testing, I said that you could use one of
the XSLT unit testing frameworks (among other tools) to do it, since
many of the frameworks explicitly support it:
If you want to test the stylesheet as a whole, the easiest thing to
do is to create external input/output files and reference them. [1][5]
XSLT transformation test case. This is achieved by passing the
contents of the <utfx:source> fragment through the XSLT stylesheet
that is being tested and asserting that the result is the same as the
contents of the <utfx:expected> fragment. [2]
Knowing the input XML, input stylesheet and expected output XML we
can assert that the output of the transformation matches the expected
output as follows [3]
Often template requires current node to be set up. By default, it is
a root node of the input document... [4]
Regards,
Tony Graham.
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[1] http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/utilities/unit-testing/
[2] http://utf-x.sourceforge.net/manual/manual.html
[3] http://xmlunit.sourceforge.net/userguide/html/index.html
[4] http://juxy.tigris.org/
[5] http://tennison-tests.sourceforge.net/tests.html
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