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
