diff -r f2cb733c9a37 -r fa727f11c36b Lib/test/test_xml_dom_minicompat.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xml_dom_minicompat.py	Tue Aug 23 04:33:03 2011 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+# Tests for xml.dom.minicompat
+
+import pickle
+import unittest
+
+from test.support import verbose, run_unittest, findfile
+
+import xml.dom
+# I feel bad for doing this, but it says to do this in the mincompat module
+from xml.dom.minicompat import *
+
+
+class MinicompatTest( unittest.TestCase ):
+    def test_emptynodelist_item(self):
+        """ Tests the EmptyNodeList class item method """
+        node_list = EmptyNodeList()
+        
+        self.assertEquals(node_list.item(0), None)  # first item
+        self.assertEquals(node_list.item(-1), None) # invalid item
+
+        with self.assertRaises(IndexError):
+            node_list[0]  # first item
+            node_list[-1] # last item
+        
+    def test_emptynodelist_length(self):
+        """ Tests the EmptyNodeList class length property """
+        self.assertEquals(EmptyNodeList().length, 0)
+
+    def test_emptynodelist_add(self):
+        """ Tests the EmptyNodeList class __add__ method """
+        node_list = EmptyNodeList() + NodeList()
+
+        self.assertEquals(node_list, NodeList())
+
+    def test_emptynodelist_radd(self):
+        """ Tests the EmptyNodeList class __radd__ method """
+        node_list = [1,2] + EmptyNodeList()
+
+        self.assertEquals(node_list, [1,2])
+
+    def test_nodelist_item(self):
+        """ Tests the NodeList class item method """
+        # Try with an empty NodeList first
+        node_list = NodeList()
+
+        self.assertEquals(node_list.item(0), None)  # first item
+        self.assertEquals(node_list.item(-1), None) # invalid item
+
+        with self.assertRaises(IndexError):
+            node_list[0]  # first item
+            node_list[-1] # last item
+
+        # now with an item present
+        node_list.append(111)
+        node_list.append(999)
+        
+        self.assertEquals(node_list.item(0), 111)   # first item
+        self.assertEquals(node_list.item(-1), None) # invalid item
+
+        self.assertEquals(node_list[0], 111)  # first item
+        self.assertEquals(node_list[-1], 999) # last item
+        
+        
+    def test_nodelist_length(self):
+        """ Tests the NodeList class length property """
+        node_list = NodeList()
+        
+        # reading
+        self.assertEquals(node_list.length, 0)
+
+        # writing
+        with self.assertRaises(xml.dom.NoModificationAllowedErr):
+            node_list.length = 111
+
+    def test_nodelist_add(self):
+        """ Tests the NodeList class __add__ method """
+        node_list = NodeList() + [1,2]
+
+        self.assertEquals(node_list, [1,2])
+
+    def test_nodelist_radd(self):
+        """ Tests the NodeList class __radd__ method """
+        node_list = [1,2] + NodeList()
+
+        self.assertEquals(node_list, [1,2])
+
+    def test_nodelist_pickle_roundtrip(self):
+        """ Test pickling and unpickling of a NodeList """
+        node_list = NodeList()
+
+        # empty NodeList
+        pickled_1   = pickle.dumps(node_list)
+        unpickled_1 = pickle.loads(pickled_1)
+
+        self.assertEquals(unpickled_1, node_list)
+
+        # non-empty NodeList
+        node_list.append(1)
+        node_list.append(2)
+
+        pickled_2   = pickle.dumps(node_list)
+        unpickled_2 = pickle.loads(pickled_2)
+
+        self.assertEquals(unpickled_2, node_list)
+        
+
+
+def test_main():
+    run_unittest(MinicompatTest)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    test_main()
diff -r f2cb733c9a37 -r fa727f11c36b Lib/test/xmltests.py
--- a/Lib/test/xmltests.py	Tue Aug 23 00:58:21 2011 +0200
+++ b/Lib/test/xmltests.py	Tue Aug 23 04:33:03 2011 +0100
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 runtest("test.test_minidom")
 runtest("test.test_pyexpat")
 runtest("test.test_sax")
+runtest("test.test_xml_dom_minicompat")
 runtest("test.test_xml_etree")
 runtest("test.test_xml_etree_c")
 runtest("test.test_xmlrpc")