Fwd: Re: [icedtea-web] xml output for junit, transformation sheets for daily report

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 14:51 Wed 11 May     , Jiri Vanek wrote:
> ..snip..
> >
> >> 	*index.html: file which provides runtime transformation
> >> 	of tests-output.xml and report.xml
> >> 	* tests/styles/index.js: runtime transformation script and fast
> >> 	navigation functions
> >
> > I think the transformation should be preformed by make as part of producing index.html,
> > rather than having browser-specific hacks.
> >
> 
> Not exactly. My "task" ..or.. my "desire"..  was to produce full, 
> reusable report from testsuite. And this is XML (one for unit tests, one 
> for reproducers-tests). It will be used for anything we will want to 
> mine from results. (For now I'm aware about hystory, view of single run 
> and graphs and statistics). The sheet is designed to view the report in 
> human readable way for the single run. . It will be used to generate 
> htmls on torment.  But the generation itself should not be in 
> icedtea-web (makefile).

Yes, it should, if the XML is being produced by make.  It's unintuitive for
the index.html.in to be transformed to something that isn't the final HTML,
but requires a further transformation.

> On the other way the sheet prove itself useful when hunting bugs. So I 
> decide to include the html skeleton which provide fast access to tests` 
> results using xslt transformation...
> Btw - its not an hack:) The mozzila (and company) behaviour is following 
> w3c specification for this thing.  Although... yes IE part is hack :-/. 
> So I'm willing to remove it (As i do not like M$ manners to :) ... ) but 
> no one ever knows...
> 

No, I believe the standard is to include:

<?xml-stylesheet href="templates/project.xsl" type="text/xsl" ?>

in the XML.

Displaying the results should not require Javascript.

> 
> ..snip..
> 
> 
> Regards J.

-- 
Andrew :)

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