[Xmlunit-general] Test similarity with out of order nested elements

[Oliver S. <oli...@gm...>]

I'm trying to write a XMLUnitTest that compares to XMLDocuments that basically have to layers of elements, that can be out of order.

	<root>
		<table>
			<id>1</id>
			<row>
				<c>a</c >
				<c>b</c >
			</row>
		</table> 
		<table>
			<id>2</id>
			<row>
				<c>b</c >
				<c>a</c >
			</row>
		</table>
	</root>

So table can be out of order (with different id) and their corresponding row columns can be out of order. I think it boils down to these test cases:

	@Test
	public void testIdenticalAndSimilar() throws Exception {
	      final String controlXML="<account><id>3A-00</id><name>acme</name></account>";
	      final String testXML="<account><name>acme</name><id>3A-00</id></account>";
	      final Diff diff=new Diff(controlXML, testXML);
	      assertTrue(diff.similar());
	}

	@Test
	public void testIdenticalAndSimilarWithNested() throws Exception {
	      final String controlXML="<table><id>1</id><map><k>a</k><k>b</k></map></table>";
	      final String testXML="<table><id>1</id><map><k>b</k><k>a</k></map></table>";
	      final Diff diff=new Diff(controlXML, testXML);
	      assertTrue(diff.similar());
	}

The second one should also pass but doesn't. Does anybody know a solution?

Best regards
Oliver Schrenk