Support for Citeproc bibliography tests

[Drodt]

Currently, all tests of the citeproc test suite that test the bibliography are ignored. Many important features are therefore untested. This should either be fixed or (if there are some issues I am unaware of) a comparable test suite for hayagriva should be build.

Are there any problems preventing support for Bibliography mode?

[reknih]

I have not enabled bibliography tests because they are yielded as HTML:

Note that in bibliography mode, the HTML string output used for testing will be affixed with a standard set of wrapper tags, which must be written into the result string used for comparison:

>>===== RESULT =====>>
<div class="csl-bib-body">
 <div class="csl-entry">J. Noakes, J. Doe, J. Roe (2005)</div>
 <div class="csl-entry">R. Stoakes (1898)</div>
</div>
<<===== RESULT =====<<

We do support formatting citations as HTML, but not exact string matches with citeproc.js. For example, we do not attach the csl-bib-body or csl-entry classes around entries, and neither do we do the same indentation / pretty printing. To use the bibliography mode tests, we'd need to do a combination of fuzzy matching (i.e. ignore more than one whitespace between tags) and adding the citeproc.js classes. I did not feel that that was worth the effort at the time when I added CSL tests but that calculus may have shifted in favor of having test cases now.

[Drodt]

I am not all too familiar with the HTML output by citeproc. Would it make sense to extract the content of each csl-entry <div> and compare the content with each item of hayagriva's output?

[reknih]

The problem is that citeproc may yield additional HTML elements based on the value of the CSL display attribute

[reknih]

If we deep-extracted all text from both data models, it could work