Monday, 18 October 2010

Testing times ahead...

Yeah, I know, I've used that corny title before but I do need to spend some time testing my XProc pipeline representation generator. I hesitate to call it a pipeline renderer because to my mind that conjures-up thoughts of Pixar's RenderMan 3D graphics pipeline architecture and that's something completely different. Although I did work on an SVG renderer called X-Reyes using the Reyes architecture that RenderMan is based upon, and, yes, I wrote it in XSLT. Well I would wouldn't I ;-)

So, as for testing the SVG representations, it strikes me that, amongst other sources, the XProc Test Suite will be a fertile ground for a wide variety of pipelines. In saying that though there are rather a lot of tests and I'll have to filter-out the ones that are designed to generate errors. At present my XProc parser isn't designed to flag errors in XProc documents, but that's not to say it couldn't.

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