Space in comparison

[Waldemar Sojka]

Hello

I want two compare two xmls. SetNormalizeWhitespace is true and:
- expected is <name>value</tag>
- actual is <name> value</tag>

Should my test fail? As I understand comparison should work like this " value" is different from "value".
And even with whitespace normalization because this should only change few white spaces to one.

Thanks
Waldemar

[Stefan Bodewig]

Yes, you should expect your test to fail.

SetNormalizeWhitespace(true) implies DocumentBuilder.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true) but I wouldn't expect this to affect whitespace between the opening element and the non-whitespace text content.

I assume it passes or otherwise you wouldn't be asking this question, right?

[Stefan Bodewig]

Well, it's only been a year or so since I implemented it and I forgot how I did.

If you set normalizeWhitespace to true, XMLUnit will trim all text content - and the user guide actually says so.  See http://xmlunit.sourceforge.net/userguide/html/ar01s03.html#Comparing:%20Configuration

So, sorry for the confusion: you should expect the values to be identical.  Testcase removed and Javadocs modified to mention the fact.

[Stefan Bodewig]

http://xmlunit.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xmlunit?view=rev&revision=251 fails, I opened issue 1917796 for it.

[Waldemar Sojka]

Yes, it fails :)

Thanks