When I do { 'method': 'text'} I just get the text from the XML, not the XML itself:

<testcase name="test-element-info" time="PT0.011S"> <failure message="Failed input Input: input Expected: output Got: {removed}" type="UNIT0001"/> </testcase>

What I would like is ".. Expected: <result>output</result> ..." since what is being returned is XML.

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:02 AM, Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.comwrote:

Hi Joe,

one solution is to use "text" as serialization method:

serialize("<a/>", { 'method': 'text'})

As an alternative, you can specify in the query prolog (the beginning) of your query that all results are to be output as text:

declare option output:method "text";

Hope this helps, Christian ___________________________

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:59 AM, Joe Templeman joe@inkling.com wrote:

...

Hi all,

Is there a way to output unescaped XML to a string for debugging

purposes?

...

In unittests we would like to output the XML returned when a test fails, here is my example:

declare %unit:test function elementinfo-test:test-element-info() { let $cases :=

<cases> <case> <comment>Failed input</comment> <input>input</input> <output> <result> output </result> </output> </case> </cases> for $case in $cases/case let $result := {some function which returns XML} let $u := unit:assert(deep-equal($case/output, result), $case/comment/text() || " Input: " || $case/input/text() || " Expected: " || fn:serialize($case/output) || " Got: " || fn:serialize($result)) return $u };

But when a test fails, I get escaped XML as the output. Is there any way

to

...

get this as actual XML?

Thanks, Joe

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Ah that makes sense. Is there no way then to return a message from a unittest which contains XML? The framework creates the <failure> blocks based on the result of assertions so I don't have control over what is displayed it seems.

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.comwrote:

Hi Joe,

...

<testcase name="test-element-info" time="PT0.011S"> <failure message="Failed input Input: input Expected: output

Got:

...

{removed}" type="UNIT0001"/>

</testcase>

What I would like is ".. Expected: <result>output</result> ..." since

what

...

is being returned is XML.

This is syntactically not possible, because "<" cannot occur in attribute values. The following XML is not well-formed:

<x a="<"/>

However, it’s possible to output the value of an attribute as string, and then skip the entity encoding:

declare option output:method "text"; let $expected := serialize(<a/>) let $xml := <failure message="Expected: { $expected }"/> return $xml/@message/string()

Hope this helps, Christian

Hi,

I've done something similar (I think) in BaseX using the serialize() function (XPath 3.0). It was easy enough that I suspect I don't understand the requirement here. As Christian points out, XML doesn't allow you to represent XML directly in an attribute value; I used an element.

When using the text output method it comes out as XML (because it's already been serialized). When using the XML output method, it comes out escaped (as it should be).

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On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Joe Templeman joe@inkling.com wrote:

Ah that makes sense. Is there no way then to return a message from a unittest which contains XML? The framework creates the <failure> blocks based on the result of assertions so I don't have control over what is displayed it seems.

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com wrote:

...

Hi Joe,

...

<testcase name="test-element-info" time="PT0.011S"> <failure message="Failed input Input: input Expected: output Got: {removed}" type="UNIT0001"/> </testcase>

What I would like is ".. Expected: <result>output</result> ..." since what is being returned is XML.

This is syntactically not possible, because "<" cannot occur in attribute values. The following XML is not well-formed:

<x a="<"/>

However, it’s possible to output the value of an attribute as string, and then skip the entity encoding:

declare option output:method "text"; let $expected := serialize(<a/>) let $xml := <failure message="Expected: { $expected }"/> return $xml/@message/string()

Hope this helps, Christian

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Feel free to check out the updated example in our Wiki [1] and the latest snapshot [2].

[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Unit_Module [2] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/ ___________________________

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Joe,

a little preview: I agree that the current output of the unit reporting functions is not as convenient as it could be. This is why we’ll soon extend the XML testcase output, and add some more functions like unit:assert-equals() which will create a more helpful error output.

Best, Christian ___________________________

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:59 AM, Joe Templeman joe@inkling.com wrote:

...

Hi all,

Is there a way to output unescaped XML to a string for debugging purposes? In unittests we would like to output the XML returned when a test fails, here is my example:

declare %unit:test function elementinfo-test:test-element-info() { let $cases :=

<cases> <case> <comment>Failed input</comment> <input>input</input> <output> <result> output </result> </output> </case> </cases> for $case in $cases/case let $result := {some function which returns XML} let $u := unit:assert(deep-equal($case/output, result), $case/comment/text() || " Input: " || $case/input/text() || " Expected: " || fn:serialize($case/output) || " Got: " || fn:serialize($result)) return $u };

But when a test fails, I get escaped XML as the output. Is there any way to get this as actual XML?

Thanks, Joe

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