[rspec-users] Comparing two XML documents

[Matt Wynne]

On 31 Jan 2011, at 08:26, Pat Maddox wrote:

> I load my XML docs into a hash using Hash#from_xml and then compare the hashes.

Bullseye! Thanks Pat.

> On Jan 26, 2011, at 7:26 AM, Matt Wynne <matt at mattwynne.net> 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
>> 
>> matt at mattwynne.net
>> 07974 430184
>> 
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cheers,
Matt

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