I found something
interesting...
the
"stripWhitespaceText" setting only takes effect when "mergeAdjacentText" is also
turned on. mergeAdjacentText is false by default.
So, this
works:
SAXReader xmlReader = new
SAXReader();
xmlReader.setStripWhitespaceText(true);
xmlReader.setIgnoreComments(true);
xmlReader.setMergeAdjacentText(true);
doc = xmlReader.read(file);
Documents created
like this can be successfully compared with NodeComparator:
NodeComparator compare = new NodeComparator();
int result = compare.compare(doc1, doc2);
return (result == 0);
