W3C and NIST release DOM Conformance Test Suite. (News Briefs).The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). ), in partnership with NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. , released the first version of the Document Object Model (DOM) Conformance Test Suite, Level 1 Core. The DOM Test Suite aims to help implementers test their implementations conformance with the W3C DOM Level 1 specification. This work, launched by W3C and NIST, is a publicly developed and open framework to test the DOM Level 1 Core implementations. The DOM is a platform- and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure, and style of documents. The DOM test suite consists of over 600 tests for the DOM Java and ECMA Script bindings. An additional set of more than 1000 tests for the HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. module and HTML-compatible core will be released soon. The test suite was developed using XML technology and automated test generation techniques. The tests are represented in an XML grammar (i.e., in XML schema and in DTD (Document Type Definition) A language that describes the contents of an SGML document. The DTD is also used with XML, and the DTD definitions may be embedded within an XML document or in a separate file. form) that was automatically generated from the DOM specification using an XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) Software that converts an XML document into another format such as HTML, PDF or text. It may also be used to convert one XML document to another XML document with a different set of XML tags (different schema). transform. These tests, which are language-neutral, are used together with XSLT style sheets to generate the Java and ECMA Script bindings of the tests. This method of generating tests ensures traceability to the specification as well as a consistent set of executable tests across language bindings. CONTACT: Rick Rivello, (301) 975-3519; richard.rivello@nist.gov. |
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