Hi, on the help forum there is a thread started by a user who wants to highlight all differences between two XML docs in some kind of UI.
He/she is using DetailedDiff and assumes all differences would be flagged - I agree with this expectation. A problem arises if the test document contains more nodes than the control document. XMLUnit will tell you the number of children is different on the parent of that node, but there is no difference that would reference the new node - so there is no programatic way to tell which node is new. We already have a Difference for "attribute name not found" and I'd like to introduce one for "element name not found" and I'd like to make it work symmetrically. The later means that in cases where the control document contains nodes not present in the test document the type of difference would change. This would be a backwards incompatible change (right now you'd get a "element tag name is different") but only affect people using DetailedDiff. What do you think? Stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Xmlunit-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xmlunit-general
