XML toolkit from the GNOME project

Full documentation is available on-line at
    http://xmlsoft.org/

This code is released under the MIT Licence see the Copyright file.

To build on an Unixised setup:
   ./configure ; make ; make install
To build on Windows:
   see instructions on win32/Readme.txt

To assert build quality:
   on an Unixised setup:
      run make tests
   otherwise:
       There is 3 standalone tools runtest.c runsuite.c testapi.c, which
       should compile as part of the build or as any application would.
       Launch them from this directory to get results, runtest checks
       the proper functionning of libxml2 main APIs while testapi does
       a full coverage check. Report failures to the list.

To report bugs, follow the instructions at:
  http://xmlsoft.org/bugs.html

A mailing-list xml@gnome.org is available, to subscribe:
    http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml

The list archive is at:
    http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/

All technical answers asked privately will be automatically answered on
the list and archived for public access unless pricacy is explicitely
required and justified.

Daniel Veillard

$Id$

                       README.tests

   Instructions for standalone test regressions of libxml2

libxml2-tests-$version.tar.gz contains 3 standalone C programs as well
as a large amount of tests and results coming from libxml2 itself and
from W3C, NIST, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and James Clark. Each C
program has a different testing purpose:

  runtest.c : runs libxml2 basic internal regression tests
  runsuite.c: runs libxml2 against external regression tests
  testapi.c : exercises the library public entry points
  testchar.c: exercise the check of character ranges and UTF-8 validation

The command:

  make -f Makefile.tests check

should be sufficient on an Unix system to build and exercise the tests
for the version of the library installed on the system. Note however
that there isn't backward compatibility provided so if the installed
version is older to the testsuite one, failing to compile or run the tests
is likely. In any event this won't work with an installed libxml2 older
than 2.6.20.
Building on other platfroms should be a matter of compiling the C files
like any other program using libxml2, running the test should be done
simply by launching the resulting executables.

Daniel Veillard
Thu Jul 24 2008