[odf-discuss] ODF Validation Service! - Online

[Daniel Carrera]

On Mon, 2007-26-03 at 13:52 +0200, Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
> Fix confirmed.  "Many eyes make bugs shallow " (even the crazy ones).

:-)

> And actually, this functionality was highly on our priority list

Oh, excellent.

> Do you have any indication of how complete the checks are (like 50% or
> 90% or 99% or 100% of the requirements in the ODF 1.0 specification are
> validated) ?

Let me think about this. The part of the validation that is expressed in
the RelaxNG schema is 100% because all we need to do is run the .rng
through a standard RelaxNG validator. But there may be bits of the spec
that cannot be expressed in the validator, and there are all the SHOULDs
in the spec, which don't make a document invalid but should get a
warning.

For ERRORS I think 95% is a good first guess.
For WARNINGs I think maybe 50% (?).

But warnings is the sort of thing that is never done because you can
always add a warning about something that is nowhere in the spec. For
example, we found that if one of the XML files doesn't end in a new-line
character, OOo can't open the file. This is not invalid XML, it's
actually a bug in OOo, but we added a warning for it.

For errors I can't think of anything we miss, but I'm sure we miss
*something*.


> I assume the code refered to on this page:
> 
>   http://www.opendocumentfellowship.org/projects/odftools
> 
> is the core of the validator ? If so, it might be useful to refer to that code
> from the actual Validator page.

Yes, and it does.  :-)

Cheers,
Daniel.
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