Re: [Xmlunit-general] XmlUnit.net XPathNodeTracker?

[Stefan B. <bo...@ap...>]

On 2009-03-24, Maxim Filimonov <tpa...@gm...> wrote:

> I plan to use Xml Unit for .net in my current testing of XSLT processing as
> main testing framework.
> I have some experience with Java version of Xml Unit after i migrate to .net
> version i'm shocked a bit that so much difference between java and .net
> version exists.

Once you dive deeper into it, you'll see that many features of the
Java version cannot be easily added without rewriting the difference
engine completely - the Java version uses DOM while the .NET version
uses a forward only pull parser, which makes things like
ElementQualifier very hard to implement.

Current svn trunk contains some unreleased fixes for the .NET version,
BTW.

> Java version is mature and solid and it contains real value to use it.
> .net version is not mature enough for us at least.
> I will port Java version of XPathNodeTracker and referenced items to make
> testing results more valuable.
> Is anybody interested in this solution to be shared ?

Yes.

There is a task on my ever growing TODO list that says "rewrite
XMLUnit.NET", but I have very little hope of ever getting there
without help of more people.

Stefan