Re: [Xmlunit-general] Comparing two XML documents while skipping certain nodes

[Majumder, A. <Ana...@Om...>]

Stefan  -=20
The method int differenceFound(org.custommonkey.xmlunit.Difference
difference) in the DifferenceListener interface needs a Difference
object, while the Difference class has only protected constructors.=20
The tests I am writing are in a different package and do not have access
to any protected constructors in the package "org.custommonkey.xmlunit",
am I missing the point entirely??
Thank you.
Anamika.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:bo...@ap...]=20
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 10:20 AM
To: xml...@li...; Majumder, Anamika
Subject: Re: [Xmlunit-general] Comparing two XML documents while
skipping certain nodes

On Fri, 4 May 2007, Anamika Majumder <Ana...@om...>
wrote:

> Stephan - I have another question. I am trying to compare two xml
> documents but would like to Skip the comparison in a few of those
> nodes (e.g the documents should be treated as identical even if two
> elements 'foo' and 'bar' are different in the two).
>=20
> I see in the examples, that we could implement the
> DifferenceListener,

Yes, I was about to recommend that.

> but it seems like then the documents would be treated as
> similar/identical even if nodes other than 'foo' and 'bar' are
> different.

Why?  You will have to be more specific in your DifferenceListener
implementation and only return
RETURN_IGNORE_DIFFERENCE_NODES_IDENTICAL if the Difference is one
between foo and bar elements.  In any other case return
RETURN_ACCEPT_DIFFERENCE.

> Is there a way so that I can specify using xpaths, that I would like
> to skip comparison of just foo and bar.

No, unfortunately there is not.

Stefan