[qmtest] working with the xml result stream

[Mark Mitchell]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 06:56, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > Are you willing to work on a patch?  If so, you should make
> > XMLResultReader._GetResultFromDomNode accept both the old and new format
> > -- we try to maintain backward compatibility wherever possible.
> 
> ok, here is a partial patch. It includes the changed document type 
> definition, and the necessary changes to result.py and 
> xml_result_stream.py. I didn't include the changes asked for by
> Nathaniel, as I don't have enough information to know how to generate
> that reference qmr file.

I think this patch is a little *too* backwards compatible. :-)

We don't need for old QMTest to be able to read the new files; only for
new QMTest to be able to read the old files.  So, there should no longer
be an "outcome" element.  That means that the "outcome" element
declaration should be removed from the DTD as well.

The instructions for Nathaniel's testing regime are buried in
tests/results_files/QMTest/results_file_database.py.  We should move
those instructions to README.

Basically, you want to do:

/path/to/new/qmtest -D tdb run --result-stream
xml_result_stream.XMLResultStream

and then copy results.qmr to xml_results_v3.qmr.

Thanks,

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Mark Mitchell
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