testing python-markdown

[John Gruber]

Aaron Swartz <aaronsw at gmail.com> wrote on 8/12/05 at 10:35 AM:


> > > Python-markdown produces uses minidom to generate HTML, so it's

> > > hard to get it to agree with the perl implementation on a

> > > character-by-character basis and hence it would help to have a

> > > framework that can ignore meaninless whitespace.

> > 

> > Then you should probably try to `diff -w`

> 

> On the other hand, MarkdownTest contains tidy support for exactly

> this purpose.


Right -- the idea is that you let tidy reformat the markup before
comparing it to the expected results, which should treat things like
this:

    <p>Foo.</p>

and:

    <p>
    Foo.
    </p>

as equivalent.

Let us know how the testing goes, please.

-J.G.