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+import PureXML
+import Testing
+
+/// Exercises the public entry points in `API.swift` that the rest of the suite
+/// reaches only through subsystem types: the SAX and incremental-source parse
+/// overloads, the streaming `events` overloads, and HTML content-model validation.
+@Suite("Public entry points")
+struct PublicEntryPointTests {
+    private let xml = #"<r a="1"><c>hi</c></r>"#
+
+    @Test("parse delivers SAX callbacks in document order")
+    func test_parseSax() throws {
+        var elements: [String] = []
+        var text = ""
+        let handler = PureXML.Parsing.SAXHandler(
+            startElement: { name, _ in elements.append(name.localName) },
+            characters: { text += $0 },
+        )
+        try PureXML.parse(xml, sax: handler)
+        #expect(elements == ["r", "c"])
+        #expect(text == "hi")
+    }
+
+    @Test("parse from an incremental byte source yields the same tree as the string parse")
+    func test_parsePullingBytes() throws {
+        var bytes = Array(xml.utf8)[...]
+        let streamed = try PureXML.parse(pullingBytes: { bytes.isEmpty ? nil : bytes.removeFirst() })
+        #expect(try PureXML.serialize(streamed) == PureXML.serialize(PureXML.parse(xml)))
+    }
+
+    @Test("every events overload streams the document to completion")
+    func test_eventsOverloads() throws {
+        var fromBytes = try PureXML.events(bytes: Array(xml.utf8))
+        var byteEvents = 0
+        while try fromBytes.next() != nil {
+            byteEvents += 1
+        }
+        #expect(byteEvents > 0)
+
+        var chars = Array(xml)[...]
+        var fromChars = PureXML.events(pulling: { chars.isEmpty ? nil : chars.removeFirst() })
+        var charEvents = 0
+        while try fromChars.next() != nil {
+            charEvents += 1
+        }
+        #expect(charEvents == byteEvents)
+
+        var sourceBytes = Array(xml.utf8)[...]
+        var fromPulledBytes = PureXML.events(pullingBytes: { sourceBytes.isEmpty ? nil : sourceBytes.removeFirst() })
+        var pulledByteEvents = 0
+        while try fromPulledBytes.next() != nil {
+            pulledByteEvents += 1
+        }
+        #expect(pulledByteEvents == byteEvents)
+    }
+
+    @Test("validateHTML flags a duplicate id")
+    func test_validateHTML() throws {
+        let duplicate = try PureXML.parse(#"<root><a id="d"></a><b id="d"></b></root>"#)
+        #expect(!PureXML.validateHTML(duplicate).isEmpty)
+        let unique = try PureXML.parse(#"<root><a id="d"></a><b id="e"></b></root>"#)
+        #expect(PureXML.validateHTML(unique).allSatisfy { !$0.reason.lowercased().contains("id") })
+    }
+}