[ xmlunit-Feature Requests-3602981 ] Diff failswith xsi:type and different prefix

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Feature Requests item #3602981, was opened at 2013-02-01 07:05
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>Status: Pending
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: David Portabella Clotet (dportabella)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Diff failswith xsi:type and different prefix

Initial Comment:
This code:

import org.custommonkey.xmlunit.Diff;
String result = "<ns1:Square xsi:type=\"ns1:Shape\" xmlns:ns1=\"http://example.com/\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"/>";
String correct = "<ns2:Square xsi:type=\"ns2:Shape\" xmlns:ns2=\"http://example.com/\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"/>";
Diff diff = new Diff(result, correct);
System.out.println("diff:" + diff);
System.out.println("diff.similar(): " + diff.similar());


results in:
diff: org.custommonkey.xmlunit.Diff
[not identical] Expected namespace prefix 'ns1' but was 'ns2' - comparing <ns1:Square...> at /Square[1] to <ns2:Square...> at /Square[1]

[different] Expected attribute value 'ns1:Shape' but was 'ns2:Shape' - comparing <ns1:Square xsi:type="ns1:Shape"...> at /Square[1]/@type to <ns2:Square xsi:type="ns2:Shape"...> at /Square[1]/@type

diff.similar(): false

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someone posted a fix here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14647861/xmlunit-diff-returns-similar-false-if-there-is-a-xsitype-and-a-different-namesp/14648786#14648786


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>Comment By: Stefan Bodewig (bodewig)
Date: 2013-02-03 02:43

Message:
The only remaining xsi-attribute is xsi:nil which - I think - is handled
reasonably.

I'm preparing a new release, would be good if you could test the fix before
I finalize it.  If you have any trouble building XMLUnit from source, I'll
be happy to provide a binary.

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Comment By: Stefan Bodewig (bodewig)
Date: 2013-02-02 06:53

Message:
This should be fixed with svn revision 502 in the 1.x Branch
https://xmlunit.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xmlunit/branches/xmlunit-1.x

Can you try to build it yourself to see whether it works for you?

Before I cut a new release I want to look around the Schema Instance
namespace to see whether there is anything else XMLUnit could support in a
better way.

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Comment By: Stefan Bodewig (bodewig)
Date: 2013-02-01 08:22

Message:
Actually, XMLUnit doesn't really support much of the XML-Schema Instance
stuff at all.

I've started to fix it in the 1.x branch and simply ignoring the namespace
prefix is trivial for this case, making sure the prefixes map to the same
NS uris seems more difficult, at least as long as I'm in Java 1.4 land.

Once this is fixed I'll roll a new release.

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