Problem while comparing two documents

[Ahmed Dhieb]

Hi,

I'm trying to compare two xml documents using xmlunit 1.3.

The first is :
<a>
    <b>
        <c>text</c>
        <d>text</d>
    </b>
    <e>
        <f>text</f>
        <g>text</g>
    </e>
</a>

and

<a>
    <e>
        <g>text</g>
        <f>text</f>
    </e>
    <b>
        <c>text</c>
        <d>text</d>
    </b>
</a>

So elements in level 1 can be in different order (b and e). Besides, elements in level 2 can also be in different order (g and f)

How can I do to have as a result similar and not identical ?

Thanks

Ahmed

[Stefan Bodewig]

The part of XMLUnit which decides which node to compare to which other node is controlled by the  ElementQualifier.  In your case it should work if you just used the ElementNameQualifier to make sure XMLUnit will compare the sub-trees with the same root names.