Project acronym: QUESTION-HOW
Project Full Title:Quality Engineering
Solutions via Tools, Information and Outreach for the New Highly-enriched
Offerings from W3C: Evolving the Web in Europe
Project/Contract No. IST-2000-28767
Workpackage 1, Deliverable D1.5
Project Manager: Daniel Dardailler
<danield@w3.org>
Author of this document: same
Created: 27 August 2002. Last updated: 27 August 2002.
The W3C Quality Assurance (QA) Activity has a dual focus:
QA is absolutely necessary in order to ensure interoperability and usability and also to have consistency between the specifications we produce.
To achieve these goals, we need tools and documents that are specifically developped or written for the W3C QA, but that will be usable by the W3C community as large.
This project consisted in:
Associated with the matrix, we will deliver a taxonomy document defining all fields covered by QA, ie.e which category tools, specifications, documents belong to. It's a tool that will help people working in the same area to have a common vocabulary and create a kind of ontology of the W3C QA work.
The Matrix is a Web resource which gives information about the W3C specifications, it's a synthetic table with information useful for developpers of Test materials or products.
The source of the matrix is maintained in XML: TheMatrix.xml, which contains more information than the HTML version, automatically generated on the fly or on demand.
The HTML (XHTML in fact) output is produced with an XSL stylesheet : toMatrix.xsl.
First, let's look at the Matrix itself as it appears to the online users:
This is only an extraxt, the real Matrix is available online
Spec | Status | Validator | Test Suites | Related | Conformance section |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SVG 1.0 | rec | no | |||
SVG 1.1 | cr | no | no | ||
SVG Mobile | cr | no | no | - | |
... | .. | ... | ... | ... | ... |
The document is encoded as an UTF-8 document.
The following elements have been designed:
The full version of the Matrix source in XML is available online.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="2002/06/toMatrix.xsl" type="application/xml"?> <matrix> <spec> <uri>http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/</uri> <name>Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 Specification</name> <accronym>SVG 1.0</accronym> <history> <status name="rec" uri="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904" date="2001-09-04"/> </history> <validator status="no"></validator> <ts origin="w3c"> <uri>http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/</uri> </ts> <related> <info> <uri>http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG-access/</uri> <text>Accessibility Features of SVG</text> </info> <info> <uri>http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/BE-ImpStatus</uri> <text>SVG Conformance suite implementation status</text> </info> <info> <uri>http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/svgTest-manual.htm</uri> <text>SVG Test Suite Manual</text> </info> </related> <conf> <uri>http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/conform.html</uri> </conf> <imptime>9m</imptime> </spec>
This complete style sheet processes the XML source above and renders it as XHTML.
This is a shorter version without Metadata, logo, copyright and CSS generation.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" version="1.0"> <xsl:outputindent="yes" method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="no" encoding="utf-8" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"/> <xsl:template match="*"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>W3C QA - The W3C Matrix</title> </head> <body> <h1>The Matrix of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/">W3C specifications</a>.</h1> <div class="thematrix"> <table class="thematrix" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <th>Spec</th> <th>Status</th> <!-- <th>QA Log</th>--> <th>Validator</th> <th>Test Suites</th> <th>Related</th> <th>Conformance section</th> </tr> <xsl:apply-templates/> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <hr /> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="text()"/> <xsl:template match="spec"> <tr> <th class="spec"><a href="{uri}" title="{name}"><xsl:value-of select="accronym"/></a></th> <td class="{history/status[1]/@name}"><xsl:value-of select="history/status[1]/@name"/></td> <!--<td class="Log"></td>--> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="validator/@status='yes'"> <td class="Valid"><a href="{validator/uri}"><img src="http://www.w3.org/QA/images/icovalid" alt="Validator" /></a></td> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise><td class="Valid">no</td></xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="ts/@origin='w3c'"> <td class="TS"><a href="{ts/uri}"><img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/WWW/w3c_home" style="height:1em" alt="W3C Test Suite" /></a></td> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="ts/@origin='out'"> <td class="TS"><a href="{ts/uri}"><img src="http://www.w3.org/QA/images/icots" alt="Test Suite" /></a></td> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise><td class="TS">no</td></xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="not(related/info/node())"> <td class="Info">-</td> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <td class="Info"> <ul> <xsl:apply-templates select="related/info"/> </ul> </td> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="conf/@status='no'"> <td class="Conf">no</td> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise><td class="conf"><a href="{conf/uri}"><img src="http://www.w3.org/QA/images/icoconf" alt="Conformance" /></a></td></xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </tr> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="info"> <li><a href="{uri}"><xsl:value-of select="text"/></a></li> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
None, work is done.
The Matrix is now an important tool of the W3C QA activity, used daily by a lot of WG participants.
It is continuously updated by the W3C staff to reflect the latest QA development in all W3C specifications.