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From: "Arnold, Curt" <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com>
To: "'general@xml.apache.org'" <general@xml.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:22:29 -0700
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In general, the OASIS conformance projects has focused on developing the test definitions, not the harnesses that actually execute the tests.

The SourceForge project started with David Brownell donating the harness that he used to produce his series of XML conformance reports for xml.com.  The XML Conf project was intended to compliment the
efforts of both OASIS and NIST and was started with the knowledge of some key participants in the OASIS	efforts.

In addition, to the harness for the OASIS test suite.  We have hacked the NIST DOM ECMAScript conformance suite which was originally written to test MSXML to be able to test both Xerces-COM and Adobe
SVGViewer.

Though we did write some tests for the April 2000 Draft of XML Schema, the main focus has been on providing harnesses to execute tests defined by OASIS and extending the NIST DOM tests for other
implementations.

Keeping the harnesses up to date and extending them to other languages and platforms seems best suited to be done outside of the official efforts of OASIS and NIST.

If anyone wants a home for XML related test projects that are not Apache-specific, you are more than welcome to camp out at XML Conf.