# XML Test Cases version 1998-11-18

Copyright (C) 1998 James Clark. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to copy and modify this collection in any way for internal use within a company or organization. Permission is granted to redistribute the file `xmltest.zip` containing this collection to third parties provided that no modifications of any kind are made to this file. Note that permission to distribute the collection in any other form is not granted.

The collection is structured into three directories:

`not-wf`
  this contains cases that are not well-formed XML documents
`valid`
  this contains cases that are valid XML documents
`invalid`
  this contains cases that are well-formed XML documents but are not valid XML documents

The `not-wf` and `valid` directories each have three subdirectories:

`sa`
  this contains cases that are standalone (as defined in XML) and do not have references to external general entities
`ext-sa`
  this contains case that are standalone and have references to external general entities
`not-sa`
  this contains cases that are not standalone

In each directory, files with a `.xml` extension are the XML document test cases, and files with a `.ent` extension are external entities referenced by the test cases.

Within the `valid` directory, each of these three subdirectories has an `out` subdirectory which contains an equivalent canonical XML document for each of the cases.

Bug reports and contributions of new test cases are welcome.