[ xmlunit-Feature Requests-1877458 ] Support for XML entities comparison

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Feature Requests item #1877458, was opened at 2008-01-22 16:50
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>Category: XMLUnit for Java
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Olivier Armand (extended)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Support for XML entities comparison

Initial Comment:
The DifferenceEngine's JavaDoc ( http://xmlunit.sourceforge.net/api/org/custommonkey/xmlunit/DifferenceEngine.html ) indicates: "Nodes of other types (eg ENTITY_NODE) will be skipped."

This means that for example this test case fails: 

assertXMLEqual("<root>bla\r\nbla</root>", "<root>bla&#xD;\nbla</root>");

I suppose this is because XmlUnit sees \r\n on one side and only \n on the other side since &#xD; is skipped.

In my case the control and the test are generated by different processing chain (and XML parsers/serializers), which may produce either entities or standard characters.

XMLUnit.setNormalizeWhitespace(true); seems to be a solution for the special case of this entity, but 
true support for XML entities comparison would be much better.

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