[Xmlunit-general] combination of Attribute- and TextQualifier ?

[Mirko S. <mir...@iw...>]

Hi people,

xmlunit seems to be a great help for me. Thanks!
However, I have difficulties doing comparisons of complex xml data.
Please see the following example:

control:
----------
<listOfFunctionDefinitions>
    <functionDefinition id="func1">
        <tag0:math xmlns:tag0="http://www.w3.org/">
            <tag0:bvar>
                <tag0:ci> A </tag0:ci>
            </tag0:bvar>
            <tag0:bvar>
                <tag0:ci> B </tag0:ci>
            </tag0:bvar>
        </tag0:math>
    </functionDefinition>
</listOfFunctionDefinitions>
<listOfSpecies>
    <species id="spec1">
        <rdf:Bag>
            <rdf:li resource="res1"/>
            <rdf:li resource="res2"/>
        </rdf:Bag>
    </species>
    <species id="spec2">
        <rdf:Bag>
            <rdf:li resource="res3"/>
            <rdf:li resource="res4"/>
        </rdf:Bag>
    </species>
</listOfSpecies>

test:
------
<listOfFunctionDefinitions>
    <functionDefinition id="func1">
        <tag0:math xmlns:tag0="http://www.w3.org/">
            <tag0:bvar>
                <tag0:ci> B </tag0:ci>
            </tag0:bvar>
            <tag0:bvar>
                <tag0:ci> A </tag0:ci>
            </tag0:bvar>
        </tag0:math>
    </functionDefinition>
</listOfFunctionDefinitions>
<listOfSpecies>
    <species id="spec2">
        <rdf:Bag>
            <rdf:li resource="res3"/>
            <rdf:li resource="res4"/>
        </rdf:Bag>
    </species>
    <species id="spec1">
        <rdf:Bag>
            <rdf:li resource="res1"/>
            <rdf:li resource="res2"/>
        </rdf:Bag>
    </species>
</listOfSpecies>

In this test case, the nodes <tag0:ci> A and B (from the first half) as
well as <species id="spec1">  and "spec2" (from the second half) were
interchanged.

I consider the test case to equal the control case, but xmlunit tells me
it is different.

Since I have a deep hierarchical structure I need recursive comparison
as provided by ElementNameAndAttributeQualifier or
ElementNameAndTextQualifier. However, since the differences are not
solely expressed as text or attribute differences, these element
qualifiers can't be used. When I use ElementNameAndAttributeQualifier,
then only the species nodes are found to be equal. On the other hand, if
I use ElementNameAndTextQualifier only the nodes tag0:ci are detected as
equal.

Is there a way to combine these two qualifiers?

Thanks,

Mirko