working with the xml result stream

[Stefan Seefeld]

I'v run into a little issue with the generated xml output using
xml-result-stream.

I run qmtest on a variety of platforms, and I generate one xml
result file for each. Then I process these files with xslt to
generate a 'result matrix'. At some point I'm determining the
number of failures/passes/etc., and the xslt way to do this is
with an xpath expression such as

"count($target/results/result[outcome='FAIL'])"

The problem is that the content of 'outcome' nodes varies
between platforms, i.e. on linux it may be

<outcome>PASS</outcome>

and on windows

   <outcome>
    PASS
   </outcome>

This means that I can't just compare the string values that
easily, since the content differs in whitespace.

Thus my question: wouldn't it be more natural to put the outcome
value into an attribute ?
A temporary workaround for my xpath expression may be to use
"contains(outcome, 'FAIL')", but that seems quite hackish.

Checking with the document type definition for result files
I think it would be perfectly fine to make such a change,
i.e. the outcome is actually an enum, so the dtd / schema could
well be tightened a bit to make processing easier.

Any thoughts ?

Stefan