[ xmlunit-Bugs-2836385 ] Similar XML comparison fails

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Bugs item #2836385, was opened at 2009-08-12 11:27
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Category: None
Group: Java 1.2
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Sreekanth Kolluri (skolluri)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Similar XML comparison fails

Initial Comment:
Hi,

I'm comparing 2 XML strings that are not identical but similar - both XML strings have the same nodes but in a different order.  I used RecursiveElementNameAndTextQualifier but the similar comparison fails.  I'm using version 1.2. Here is my java code.


import org.custommonkey.xmlunit.XMLUnit;
import org.custommonkey.xmlunit.Diff;
import org.custommonkey.xmlunit.examples.RecursiveElementNameAndTextQualifier;

public class XMLUnitTest {

    public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {

        String s1 = "<main>" +
                    "   <inner>" +
                    "       <bar>50015</bar>" +
                    "   </inner>" +
                    "   <inner>" +
                    "       <bar>50003</bar>" +
                    "   </inner>" +
                    "   <inner>" +
                    "       <bar>50013</bar>" +
                    "   </inner>" +
                    "   <inner>" +
                    "       <bar>50020</bar>" +
                    "   </inner>" +
                    "   <inner>" +
                    "       <bar>50013</bar>" +
                    "   </inner>" +
                    "</main>";

        String s2 = "<main>" +
                    "   <inner>" +
                    "       <bar>50003</bar>" +
                    "   </inner>" +
                    "   <inner>" +
                    "       <bar>50015</bar>" +
                    "   </inner>" +
                    "   <inner>" +
                    "       <bar>50013</bar>" +
                    "   </inner>" +
                    "   <inner>" +
                    "       <bar>50013</bar>" +
                    "   </inner>" +
                    "   <inner>" +
                    "       <bar>50020</bar>" +
                    "   </inner>" +
                    "</main>";

        XMLUnit.setIgnoreWhitespace(true);
        Diff diff = new Diff(s1, s2);
        diff.overrideElementQualifier(new RecursiveElementNameAndTextQualifier());
        boolean isSimilar = diff.similar();
        if (!isSimilar) {
            System.out.println(diff);
        }
    }
}


I get the following error:

org.custommonkey.xmlunit.Diff
[not identical] Expected sequence of child nodes '0' but was '1' - comparing <inner...> at /main[1]/inner[1] to <inner...> at /main[1]/inner[2]

[not identical] Expected sequence of child nodes '1' but was '0' - comparing <inner...> at /main[1]/inner[2] to <inner...> at /main[1]/inner[1]

[not identical] Expected sequence of child nodes '3' but was '4' - comparing <inner...> at /main[1]/inner[4] to <inner...> at /main[1]/inner[5]

[not identical] Expected sequence of child nodes '4' but was '2' - comparing <inner...> at /main[1]/inner[5] to <inner...> at /main[1]/inner[3]

[different] Expected presence of child node 'null' but was 'inner' - comparing  at null to <inner...> at /main[1]/inner[4]


Thanks for looking into this.


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