[uf-dev] $PRODID$ normalization [was: hCard test 30...]

[Dan Connolly]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 12:37 -0500, brian suda wrote:
> Any application that is using the Test Suite will have different PRODIDs
> and different SOURCE values. So in the test suites we used $PRODID$
> which is replaced by the string in the /bin/test-xlstproc.pl so you can
> customize it for your applications output.
> 
> We are DIFF'ing the output from xsltproc (or other applications) to the
> .vcf files. If someone uses their own application it will have a
> different string for the value of PRODID, so instead of hard-coding a
> valued in the .vcf files and then during DIFF throwing errors, we used a
> variable $PRODID$ which is swapped out so the diff doesn't fail.
> 
> does that make more sense?

Well, no. Why not just take the output of x2v and change
the PRODID line, and then do the diff against the expected
results? Why should test-xlstproc.pl change when x2v change?

In Edinburgh, Ryan gave an answer that made sense to me at
the time, but I either can't remember it or am no longer
convinced by it. It had something to do with encouraging
implementations to spit out some PRODID, and not just
skipping the property altogether.

>  maybe we are talking about two different
> things? I'll be around on IRC <abbr title="2006-06-21">today</abbr> that
> might clear-up any confusion faster.

Yeah... here's hoping...

> -brian

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