From 7b7f0d6209744af59f3c1820f98fd2a22dcebfba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "sgunderson@bigfoot.com" <> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 03:18:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added a note about the test suite. --- doc/intro.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/intro.txt b/doc/intro.txt index 8f7afa3..448ded6 100644 --- a/doc/intro.txt +++ b/doc/intro.txt @@ -251,6 +251,10 @@ The main thoughts behind XML::Template have been, in no particular order: implementation, so maintaining this hopefully shouldn't be much work.) As proof-of-concept, I've got Perl, PHP and Python implementations that work and feel largely the same -- Ruby and other implementations are welcome. + (This is backed up by a test suite, which ensures that all the different + implementations return structurally equivalent XML for a certain set of + test cases. Porting to a new language is not difficult, and once you've + got all the test cases to pass, your work is most likely done.) As a side note to the second point, I've spent some time wondering exactly _why_ you want to separate the back-end logic from your HTML, and why people -- 2.39.2