[Xmlunit-general] Patching XMLUnit

[Brian M. <bri...@us...>]

The following (portions of) WSDL files are valid and equivalent, however
assertXMLEqual does not seem to allow for unordered lists of elements.

(i.e.  assertXMLEqual on "<test><foo>abc</foo><foo>123</foo></test>" and
"<test><foo>123</foo><foo>abc</foo></test>" would result in an
AssetionFailedError.)

WSDL File 1:

<wsdl:definitions xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
xmlns:ns0="http://tempuri.org" targetNamespace="http://tempuri.org">

    <wsdl:message name="retUIntRequest">
        <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="ns0:retUInt"/>
    </wsdl:message>

    <wsdl:message name="retByteArrayRequest">
        <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="ns0:retByteArray"/>
    </wsdl:message>

</wsdl:definitions>

WSDL File 2:

<wsdl:definitions xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
xmlns:ns0="http://tempuri.org" targetNamespace="http://tempuri.org">

    <wsdl:message name="retByteArrayRequest">
        <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="ns0:retByteArray"/>
    </wsdl:message>

    <wsdl:message name="retUIntRequest">
        <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="ns0:retUInt"/>
    </wsdl:message>

</wsdl:definitions>

Would it be acceptable to patch XMLUnit to allow these two comparisons (the
strings and WSDL files) to pass?  Is that work already underway?  If I
create
the patch, how can I submit it??

Thank you,

Brian Murray
Software Engineer,
WebSphere Application Server Development
IBM Corporation, 4205 S Miami Blvd, Durham NC 27709
(919) 486-2087