diff --git a/plugins/OStatus/tests/ActivityParseTests.php b/plugins/OStatus/tests/ActivityParseTests.php
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+<?php
+
+if (isset($_SERVER) && array_key_exists('REQUEST_METHOD', $_SERVER)) {
+    print "This script must be run from the command line\n";
+    exit();
+}
+
+// XXX: we should probably have some common source for this stuff
+
+define('INSTALLDIR', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../..'));
+define('STATUSNET', true);
+
+require_once INSTALLDIR . '/lib/common.php';
+require_once INSTALLDIR . '/plugins/OStatus/lib/activity.php';
+
+class ActivityParseTests extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
+{
+    public function testExample1()
+    {
+        global $_example1;
+        $dom = DOMDocument::loadXML($_example1);
+        $act = new Activity($dom->documentElement);
+
+        $this->assertFalse(empty($act));
+        $this->assertEquals($act->time, 1243860840);
+        $this->assertEquals($act->verb, ActivityVerb::POST);
+    }
+}
+
+$_example1 = <<<EXAMPLE1
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:activity='http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/'>
+  <id>tag:versioncentral.example.org,2009:/commit/1643245</id>
+  <published>2009-06-01T12:54:00Z</published>
+  <title>Geraldine committed a change to yate</title>
+  <content type="xhtml">Geraldine just committed a change to yate on VersionCentral</content>
+  <link rel="alternate" type="text/html"
+        href="http://versioncentral.example.org/geraldine/yate/commit/1643245" />
+  <activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb>
+  <activity:verb>http://versioncentral.example.org/activity/commit</activity:verb>
+  <activity:object>
+    <activity:object-type>http://versioncentral.example.org/activity/changeset</activity:object-type>
+    <id>tag:versioncentral.example.org,2009:/change/1643245</id>
+    <title>Punctuation Changeset</title>
+    <summary>Fixing punctuation because it makes it more readable.</summary>
+    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="..." />
+  </activity:object>
+</entry>
+EXAMPLE1;
+
+$_example2 = <<<EXAMPLE2
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:activity='http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/'>
+  <id>tag:photopanic.example.com,2008:activity01</id>
+  <title>Geraldine posted a Photo on PhotoPanic</title>
+  <published>2008-11-02T15:29:00Z</published>
+  <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="/geraldine/activities/1" />
+  <activity:verb>
+  http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post
+  </activity:verb>
+  <activity:object>
+    <id>tag:photopanic.example.com,2008:photo01</id>
+    <title>My Cat</title>
+    <published>2008-11-02T15:29:00Z</published>
+    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="/geraldine/photos/1" />
+    <activity:object-type>
+      tag:atomactivity.example.com,2008:photo
+    </activity:object-type>
+    <source>
+      <title>Geraldine's Photos</title>
+      <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="/geraldine/photofeed.xml" />
+      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="/geraldine/" />
+    </source>
+  </activity:object>
+  <content type="html">
+     &lt;p&gt;Geraldine posted a Photo on PhotoPanic&lt;/p&gt;
+     &lt;img src="/geraldine/photo1.jpg"&gt;
+  </content>
+</entry>
+EXAMPLE2;