Re: [xsl] Does the new structure include the same text content?

Would a character count of output (stripped white space) suffice?

regards

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 12:11, Paul Tyson phtyson(_at_)sbcglobal(_dot_)net
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
> I had a similar challenge some years back. I met it with schematron.
>
> Write a 2nd stylesheet that generates schematron rules describing the 
> expected structure and content of the output files. Run these against the 
> output.
>
> Of course there is a risk that your schematron rules will be incomplete in 
> the same or different manner than your transformation stylesheet. But they 
> will be able to check for known errors, such as the one you have already 
> discovered.
>
> Regards,
>
> --Paul
>
> On 1/22/21 5:29 AM, ian(_dot_)proudfoot(_at_)itp-x(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> �
>
> I am working on a project to convert several thousand SGML files (S1000D 1.7) 
> into a more recent XML version (S1000D 4.1). My finished XSLT style sheet 
> does the job that is expected. �However during the development I did run 
> into a problem where an error in the stylesheet allowed the output to pass 
> schema validation but by omitting some content! For me that�s very bad news 
> and I was lucky to notice it. �Ultimately the final output will be verified 
> by the subject matter experts, but I really don�t want to give them any 
> reason to doubt the reliability of the conversion.
>
> �
>
> This got me thinking about ways to verify the output text content against the 
> input despite significantly different structure. Is there an established way 
> to do that? If so what is it called and how well does it work?
>
> Perhaps it�s something that I should build into the XSLT as it is written? 
> Or perhaps it could be run as a post process batch comparison operation?
>
> �
>
> My initial thought is to output normalized text from input and output and 
> compare the resulting text files� �
>
> �
>
> I�ve searched the archives, but I probably don�t know the correct 
> terminology to get any useful results�
>
> �
>
> Thanks in advance for all responses.
>
> Ian
>
> �
>
> Ian Proudfoot
>
> Bembridge
>
> Isle of Wight
>
> United Kingdom
>
> �
>
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