[Xmlunit-general] using the RecursiveElementNameAndTextQualifier

[Edward K. <edw...@gm...>]

Hi,

Before I begin, I would like to thank the authors of this software for
creating a much needed piece of code!

My question is that I am using the RecursiveElementNameAndTextQualifier and
I noticed that if I try to compare 2 documents with one change in the child
nodes, then this qualifier works. However, I if I swap > 1 nodes, this
qualifier seems to fail. I have attached 2 xml docs (the test doc has 2
nodes swapped from the control doc).

My code is: 

	// don't care about ordering or comments, etc
	XMLUnit.setIgnoreAttributeOrder(true);
	XMLUnit.setIgnoreComments(true);
	XMLUnit.setIgnoreWhitespace(true);
	XMLUnit.setIgnoreDiffBetweenTextAndCDATA(true);
	// get the differences
	StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
	// getControlXML & getTestXML get the attached docs
	DetailedDiff myDiff = new DetailedDiff(new Diff(getControlXML(),
getTestXML()));
	// override the qualifier because I don't care about child order
	myDiff.overrideElementQualifier(new
RecursiveElementNameAndTextQualifier());
	List<Difference> differences = myDiff.getAllDifferences();
	for (Difference d : differences)
	    sb.append(d.toString() + "\n");
	System.out.println(sb.toString());

Am I doing something wrong?

Also, I have a second question. If I use the
RecursiveElementNameAndTextQualifier, should I file and place it in my
project, or is that file guaranteed to persist?

Thanks a lot!

Eddie