[Xmlunit-general] DetailedDiff appears to compare staggered notes instead of exact xpath location

[David P. <dav...@gm...>]

JRE 1.6
XMLUnit 1.3
Windows 7

I'm not sure exactly why, but DetailedDiff appears to be comparing different
nodes between files. I'd like it to compare the exact xpath location in one
file to the exact xpath location in the other.

Output example to explain a bit:

This one looks ok:
Expected attribute name 'product' but was 'null' - comparing <topic...> at
/topic[1] to <topic...> at /topic[1]

Here it is comparing (at the end of the xpath loc) node 2 to node 3:
Expected attribute name 'null' but was 'product' - comparing <li...> at
/topic[1]/body[1]/section[1]/table[1]/tbody[1]/tr[2]/td[2]/ul[1]/li[2] to
<li...> at
/topic[1]/body[1]/section[1]/table[1]/tbody[1]/tr[2]/td[2]/ul[1]/li[3]

Same thing here (node 3 to node 4)
Expected attribute value 'test' but was 'test2' - comparing <li
product="test"...> at
/topic[1]/body[1]/section[1]/table[1]/tbody[1]/tr[2]/td[2]/ul[1]/li[3]/@product
to <li product="test2"...> at
/topic[1]/body[1]/section[1]/table[1]/tbody[1]/tr[2]/td[2]/ul[1]/li[4]/@product

I've even tried setting the ElementQualifier to null in both the Diff and
DetailedDiff:
Diff xmlDiff = new Diff(xmlStream, xmlStream2);
 xmlDiff.overrideElementQualifier(null);
DetailedDiff dXmlDiff = new DetailedDiff(xmlDiff);
 dXmlDiff.overrideElementQualifier(null);

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Dave