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radiodns / spi-transform

Transformations from RadioEPG 1.0/1.1 to the new ETSI TS 102 818 Hybrid Radio SPI (and back again)

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Improved diff tool #8

Closed andybee closed 7 years ago

andybee commented 7 years ago

The current test folder in the repo contains a diff bash script to provide a simple test of the transform behaviour.

Despite using the xmllint --exc-c14n profile it still has a number of shortcomings which can deliver false error reports:

Re-ordering of elements will cause diff to fail
Formatting errors can make the diff fail
Namespace ordering can also cause the diff to fail

It would be nice to have more robust test to ensure the XSLTs perform satisfactorily.

andybee commented 7 years ago

The new test script handles this much better and has allowed for testing the XSLT against some much more complicated real world scripts with fewer unintentional issues as a result of the test rather than the XSLT itself.