Not the same thing. Comparing raw XML string is overly strict. For
example I would expect the following two snips to be "equal":
<root><foo bar="10" baz="20">Hi</foo></root
and
<root>
<foo baz="20" bar="10">
Hi
</foo>
</root>
These would not be equal by string comparison b/c the attribute bar
and baz are not in the same order (to say nothing of white space).
Actually, they're not equal for a different reasons. You have to
enable whitespace stripping on document load, then they would be
correct. Internally, XML sees the above fragment like:
<root>[whitespace, including newline]<foo baz="20" bar="10">
Hi
</foo>[whitespace, including newline]</root>
Whitespace is a special XML node that exists between elements. <:~/
Not ideal, and not something I agree with, but...
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