[Webtest] Building suites and removing duplication

[Johannes Link]

Hi Dierk,

> BTW: you don't need to do the entity def in a dtd. You can
> extract whole xml nodes in external files.

Do you refer to the SYSTEM command in the DTD or something else?

> If that does not address your problem:
> How would a WebTest look like, where your problem is solved?

I could imagine something like:
<defstep name="mytask">
   <param name="param1"/>
   <invoke ...>
   <verify ... text=${param1}/>
</stepdef>

used as:
<callstep name="mytask">
   <param name="param" value="value1">
</callstep>

However I'm not sure if this really helps. Alternatively one could have
another xslt step which transforms our xml (without duplication etc.) into a
proper webtest xml file. But well, I'm not very enthusiastic about this "meta
programming with xml/xslt" since it is very difficult not to loose control and
overview when faced with several transformations in a row.

Johannes

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