How to test if the
xml parser I wrote works? Write a parser for a big, complicated xml based file format with it. Ok, so this was the plan. This was the result:

No problems occured, the parser just works. Cool. And the positive side effect: Irrlicht will have
COLLADA support since the next release.
And BTW: COLLADA is not that big and complicated. In fact, it is nice, clean, and does what it should.