Re: [Xmlunit-general] Basic XML Comparison

[Harald B. <bra...@gm...>]

Hi Gordon,

you must set 'XMLUnit.setIgnoreWhitespace(true);' somewhere before:

@Test
public void testXmlTest1() throws Exception {
	Diff compareXML;
	final String source = "<stuff-doc><stuff>Stuff Stuff Stuff</stuff><more-stuff>Some More Stuff</more-stuff></stuff-doc>";
	final String test = "<stuff-doc>\n<stuff>Stuff Stuff Stuff</stuff>\n<more-stuff>Some More Stuff</more-stuff>\n</stuff-doc>";

	// OUTPUT:
	// identical: false
	// similar: false
	compareXML = XMLUnit.compareXML(source, test);
	System.out.println("identical: " + compareXML.identical());
	System.out.println("similar: " + compareXML.similar());

	// OUTPUT with ignoreWhitespaces = true:
	// identical: true
	// similar: true
	XMLUnit.setIgnoreWhitespace(true);
	compareXML = XMLUnit.compareXML(source, test);
	System.out.println("identical: " + compareXML.identical());
	System.out.println("similar: " + compareXML.similar());
	Assert.assertTrue(compareXML.toString(),  compareXML.similar());
	
}

lg,
Harry

On 2014-05-09, Gordon Ross wrote:
> My code is:
> public void testXmlTest1() throws SAXException, IOException
> 	{
> 		String source = "<stuff-doc><stuff>Stuff Stuff Stuff</stuff><more-stuff>Some More Stuff</more-stuff></stuff-doc>";
> 		String test = "<stuff-doc>\n<stuff>Stuff Stuff Stuff</stuff>\n<more-stuff>Some More Stuff</more-stuff>\n</stuff-doc>";
> 		assertXMLEqual(source, test);
> 	}
> XMLUnit is saying they are not the same as the number of children of
> <stuff-doc> is 5, not 2. Well, that’s true because of the whitespace
> creating text nodes. But I thought XMLUnit was supposed to cope with
> this?