I did not receive Jun’s document in my email, so I apologize for not having read it before our meeting.  Here are my thoughts as discussed at today’s meeting.

1) Use the RDF approach.  CDL test documents should be specified as pairs.  Pre and post parsing.  Each of our DOM/XOM engines can spit out the final results of parsing as a CDL.

2) I don’t think it is worth the time to create an automated “equivalence” tester for comparing the CDL provided in the test case output with the output of our own parser.  We should be able to spot check results for compliance easily enough.  Just my opinion.  Document equivalence is more of an XML problem than a CDL one.

3) Is it possible to defer the lazy reference tests to the Component Model test phase?  In CDL you need to simply verify that the document is properly formed, not that the value turned out as expected.  That is the responsibility of the Deployment API and Component Model.

Stuart