[tap-l] User Supplied Ontologies

[Chris Dolan]

On Apr 18, 2008, at 10:24 PM, chromatic wrote:
> On Friday 18 April 2008 20:18:40 Chris Dolan wrote:
>
>> How can the above example occur?  How do two different user tags get
>> applied to a single test result?  In the Test::Exceptions vs.
>> Test::Deep examples mentioned earlier (IIRC) I can see how a single
>> TAP *stream* can have conflicting tags, but I can't see how different
>> tags get applied to a single test result.
>
> Nothing precludes it, but you're right -- it's unlikely to happen  
> with the
> structure of the Perl 5, Perl 6, and Parrot TAP producers as it  
> exists now.
>
> -- c

Hmm, good point, I was thinking just in terms of Perl (this *was*  
posted to perl-qa after all).  The cases I can think of are 1) a TAP  
transformer that edits a stream, adding its own tags and 2) a TAP  
aggregator that merges upstream results into single results (say, a  
de-nester).

Chris