[Zope-dev] Adding W3C validating to zope.testbrowser

Marius Gedminas marius at gedmin.as
Tue Feb 23 09:57:02 EST 2010


On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 08:57:09AM -0500, Benji York wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Ross Patterson <me at rpatterson.net> wrote:
> > I started a branch for doing W3C HTML validation on responses to
> > zope.testbrowser requests:
> >
> > svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zope.testbrowser/branches/rossp-validator
> >
> > The idea is to be able to flip a switch and run all my functional
> > zope.testbrowser tests and see validation failures as test failures.
> 
> I'm not keen on this idea.  Validation checking isn't hard to do with
> testbrowser as-is, and doing it on every page load is overkill.  Add to
> that the global nature of the required switch and this really doesn't
> seem like the right approach.

I'd like to chime in and suggest using WSGI to hook up zope.testbrowser
and zope.app.testing.functional (or a better-designed replacement for
the latter).  Then you could plug in W3CValidatingMiddleware (if one
doesn't exist, it should be trivial to write it) between them.

Marius Gedminas
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