XML Conformance Test Suite. (Tools).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). ) has released the "XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. 1.0 (Second Ed'ition) W3C Conformance Test Suite. The test suite, developed in cooperation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology National Institute of Standards and Technology, governmental agency within the U.S. Dept. of Commerce with the mission of "working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards" in the national interest. (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. ), allows developers to test an XML processor for conformance with W3C's XML 1.0 (Second Edition) Recommendation. Comment: The XML 1.0 W3C Conformance Test Suite was developed in cooperation with NIST, and was formerly hosted by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). The test suite contains over 2000 test files, and provides a set of metrics for determining conformance to the XML 1.0 (Second Edition) Recommendation. Both W3C's XML Core Working Group and OASIS' XML Conformance Technical Committee have contributed test cases. www.w3.org |
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