Unit testing conditional comments

Question

I'm using XMLUnit (org.custommonkey.xmlunit.Diff) to test two HTML strings: one is produced by templating engine, other is from a static file. It works fine, but I ran to following problem:

There are conditional comments in my code, like this:

<!--[if IE6]>
    <link type="text/css" href="ie6Style.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<![endif]-->

I get an error if I test it against following code (href and type attributes are swapped in following snipped):

<!--[if IE6]>
    <link href="ie6Style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
<![endif]-->

I know that for XML parser, the conditional comment is just a plain text. But is there a way how to test conditional comment content a HTML/XML code?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 02 '13 at 05:44

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In case you want to ignore the comments, there is XMLUnit.setIgnoreComments(false)

answered Apr 02 '13 at 05:44

rajesh

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 01 '13 at 09:45

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Remove  before running the test.

answered Apr 01 '13 at 09:45

Oswald

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That's a nice idea. But it doesn't solve my problem entirely, since I need to test various conditional definitions, too. Perhaps I might test content of conditional comments in separate test, though. – Richard Apr 01 '13 at 10:21

Unit testing conditional comments

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