Aaron Patterson (author of Nokogiri) addressed this issue directly here: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/nokogiri-talk/2009-April/000258.html I don't think document comparison was ever implemented in Nokogiri though.
Cheers, kam On Jan 26, 2011, at 7:26 AM, Matt Wynne wrote: > I have a problem. I have a test that needs to assert that one XML document > looks exactly like another XML document. > > I couldn't find a way to compare them as Nokogiri::XML::Documents, so I > converted them both to strings with #to_xml and compared the strings. > > Trouble is, sometimes the attributes one of the nodes are rendered into the > string in a different order to the other one, so you get an error of the form: > > Diff: > @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ > <Description/> > <Context> > <BackgroundLabels> > - <Label mode="FILTER" name="included"/> > + <Label name="included" mode="FILTER"/> > </BackgroundLabels> > </Context> > <LookAndFeel nonprofit="false"/> > (RSpec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError) > > Most annoying. > > I've seen a couple of RSpec matchers in blog posts that walk and compare XML > fragments but I'm surprised there isn't something more concrete that already > exists. I feel like I'm missing a way to do it within an XML library, for > example. > > Any clues out there? > > cheers, > Matt > > m...@mattwynne.net > 07974 430184 > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
