RFE: result annotations

Stefan Seefeld stefan.seefeld at orthosoft.ca
Fri Sep 19 18:31:16 UTC 2003


hello,

Working with the xml_result_stream, I notice that the 'TRACEBACK'
annotation (which is decorated with '<pre>' and '</pre>' is escaped
in the resulting xml output. Is that intended ?

What is the approach in general ? It seems lots of output text is
assumed to be html. But then, putting it inside an xml output stream
means some work is required. While escaping seems like a possibility,
I don't believe it is the best option (see 
http://norman.walsh.name/2003/09/16/escmarkup).

I'm post-processing the output with xslt to generate a 'test matrix',
and as it is now I can't recover the '<pre>' tag.

Also, I'm wondering whether the annotation could be enhanced by
providing the name of the suite a test is part of. Of course, the suite
is implicitely given as 'foo.bar', but here, again, I'd like to be
able to access this bit of meta-info from within xslt, so I can
use suites to classify tests.

Any thoughts ?

Thanks,
		Stefan




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