[oXygen-user] [ann] [beta] oXygen XML Editor version 14 beta is available for testing

[Florent Georges]

George Cristian Bina wrote:

  Hi,

> We are happy to announce that version 14 of oXygen XML Editor is
> almost ready for release. Because the new version introduces many
> new features, we decided to release this beta version and thus have
> the chance to receive your early feedback before the final release.

  Thanks for sharing this beta!

> *XSLT Unit Test*
> oXygen 14 comes with XSpec to provide XSLT Unit Test support.

  That's good news!

> a default transformation scenario is set on XSpec files which run
> the tests, generating as output the test report, so all you need to
> do to run your tests is to click on the "Apply transformation"
> button.

  Well done!  I note there are two kinds of scenarios for XSpec,
either using Ant or using XProc.  I guess XProc test harnesses are
going to be the prefered and most maintained way of launching running
XSpec test suites (IMHO the only "raison d'etre" of the Ant way is for
systems without an XProc processor).

  But it looks to me like the XProc scenario is too closely related to
the Saxon test harness.  I guess the ideal situation would be to have
radio buttons to select between the standard harnesses AND a file
input if the user wants to provide his/her own pipeline harness.

  In addition, it would be very interesting to be able to configure
some of the standard harnesses with details that come from oXygen's
data sources.  It would be very handy for a user to say: "I want to
run this test suite on this or that data source".  E.g. if the data
source is an eXist data source, oXygen already knows all the details
to pass to the XProc test harness, like the connection point, etc.

  Thank you for this new feature in oXygen!

  Regards,

-- 
Florent Georges
http://fgeorges.org/
http://h2oconsulting.be/