Re: [documentliberation-discuss] ODF compatibility tests

Jay,

Replying in more details: there are a few ODF validators out there but 
they are neither autoritative nor maintained. And ODF 1,2 has evolved 
after they were released:
http://plugfest.opendocsociety.org/doku.php?id=validators:overview

Cheers,

Charles.


Le 2014-05-02 14:56, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit :
> Hello Jay,
>
> I do not believe that there's a single tool or test suite ensuring
> that an ODF implementations display ODF correctly. We did/do have ODF
> PLugfests that rely on a set of rather empirical data (aka: "get your
> computer and let's exchange ODF documents edited by several ODF
> implementations") and they tend to help. See here:
> http://plugfest.opendocsociety.org/doku.php
>
> However I do not believe what you're looking for does exist.
>
> Best,
>
> Charles.
>
>
> Le 2014-05-02 14:21, Jay Philips a écrit :
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I was curious what compatibility tests are being run to ensure that
> > LibO displays ODF accurately. I had asked a similar question a few
> > days back on the LibO QA mailing list but never got a response. Is
> > there an archive of standard compliant odf 1.0/1.1 and 1.2 files that
> > is available? Alternatively, is there an ODF test to validate if a ODF
> > file outputted by an ODF compatible software complies to the ODF
> > standard and can output the file as a pdf to show how it should be
> > rendered, somewhat similar to the Acid test for CSS.
> >
> > As part of my extensive testing of .docx files in LibO, i'm currently
> > testing ODF outputted by LibO to see how well its imported into Word
> > 2010 and 2013, as well as testing ODF outputted by Word 2010 and 2013
> > to see how well its imported into LibO. It would be nice to have a ODF
> > software that i could use its output as a reference to compare these
> > results against, as i've found ODF outputted by word 2010 that doesnt
> > open correctly in LibO but did in Calligra Words and i've also found
> > ODF files on libreoffice.org that displayed differences in LibO 4.1
> > and 4.2. Currently if a .doc, .docx or .rtf loads different between
> > LibO and ms word, i report these bugs, but if there are load
> > differences for .odt files its difficult to know if its a LibO or ms
> > word problem.
> >
> > --
> > Jay Philips

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