You know, this is actually the solution to my problem. I've been intermittently fooling around with this API, and had overlooked the method I was looking for:
http://xmlunit.sourceforge.net/doc/org/custommonkey/xmlunit/XMLUnit.html#setIgnoreWhitespace(boolean) Anyhow, thanks everyone for their input. I also looked at canonicalization briefly, and boy am I glad I got xmlunit working .... On 5/19/06, Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Noah, have you heard about xmlunit[1]? I haven't used it, and it looks like it hasn't been updated in a long time... but still, it might offer some help with your problem. b [1] http://xmlunit.sourceforge.net/ Noah Davis wrote: > On 5/18/06, Priest, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think what you are trying to do is derive a canonical form of each XML >> document for comparison. This turns out to be more involved than simply >> addressing ignorable whitespace. > > > Thanks for the information about canonicalization. It appears to be > what I was looking for albeit in a simplistic form. My particular use > case does not require such stringent canonicalization, though it > certainly doesn't hurt. Basically, I'm building unit tests where I > need to compare actual XML output to expected XML output. The expected > output is written by developers and my hope is that they wouldn't have > to worry too much about insignificant spaces causing failed unit > tests. > > In side note, don't use my code from earlier. It appears to break when > there are several line feed characters for some reason. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > dom4j-user mailing list > dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user
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