You should look at parsing XML in groovy, I wasn't talking about
comparing string values.

- Peace
Dave


On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:26 PM, phil swenson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well the reason I ask this is it's possible to have an XML String that
> is quite different than another XML String, but as far as an XML
> document goes - they are equivalent.
>
> Such as:
>
> <document>
>   <child>the child</child>
> </document>
>
> and
>
> <document><child>the child</child></document>
>
> These should be equal for a unit test, but you certainly wouldn't get
> equivalence if you just looked at the string values.
>
> Also the ordering between the document structures could be different,
> but for your purposes the ordering doesn't matter.  That's what
> XmlUnit does for you...
>
> Thinking XmlUnit is the way to go with this.....
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Dave King <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I haven't used XML Unit, but parsing XML in Groovy is way too easy.
>> So I'd look at doing
>> unit tests in Groovy see:
>> http://groovy.codehaus.org/Unit+Testing
>>
>> - Peace
>> Dave
>>
>> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:38 PM, phil swenson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> What is the best way to test XML documents (actual vs expected) using
>>> groovy/gradle?  XMLUnit?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
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