[CMake] Embedding html in CDash output

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Friday 13 December 2013, Nils Gladitz wrote:
> On 13.12.2013 16:05, Pere Mato Vila wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >    I would like to generate build errors (and/or test output) including
> >    html tags, in particular adding some links associated to some text.
> >    Such that on  CDash I could click directly on the link in the build
> >    error or test output. Is there a way to format or scape the html tags
> >    such that it appears as when displaying the build errors or test
> >    output?
> >   
> >   Many thanks in advance,
> >   
> > 		Pere
> 
> CTest parses test output and extracts information contained in
> <DartMeasurement> XML elements.
> These are transmitted to CDash as test measurements.
> 
> Measurements can be links, html, text, numbers or images.
> 
> This documentation isn't actually for CDash but I think the format of
> the DartMeasurement elements still mostly works:
> http://public.kitware.com/dart/HTML/Tests.shtml
> 
> CDash displays measurements on the page with the test output e.g.:
> http://open.cdash.org/testDetails.php?test=218766786&build=3136881
> (random link I picked from one of the public Dashboards)

In the next cdash release it will probably be possible to display selected 
measurements on the summary page. Very useufl for us. :-)

Alex