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XMLUnit is an open source project which enables JUnit-style assertions to be made about the content and structure of XML.

XMLUnit extends and to enable unit testing of XML.

It compares a control XML document to a test document or the result of a transformation, validates documents, and compares the results of expressions.

XMLUnit for Java

XMLUnit for Java provides two JUnit extension classes, XMLAssert and XMLTestCase, and a set of supporting classes (e.g. Diff, DetailedDiff,Transform,SimpleXpathEngine,Validator,NodeTest) that allow assertions to be made about:

  • The differences between two pieces of XML
  • The outcome of transforming a piece of XML using XSLT
  • The evaluation of an XPath expression on a piece of XML
  • The validity of a piece of XML
  • Individual nodes in a piece of XML that are exposed by DOM Traversal

XMLUnit for Java can also treat HTML content (even badly-formed HTML) as valid XML to allow these assertions to be made about the content of web pages too.

XMLUnit is available for and .

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Matching tags with identical names but different child values

I am trying to use XMLUnit 2 to compare xml files. 1 2 Second file is the same,…
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Compare two xml's using XMLUnit bypassing the order of elements

I am writing a comparison util which lets me compare similarity of two xmls without considering the order. Am using xmlunit 2.4.0 org.xmlunit.diff.Diff diff = DiffBuilder.compare(xml1) .withTest(xml2) …
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xmlunit: Error with ElementSelectors.conditionalBuilder

So I have the following input, expected output and actual output xml: input.xml Main Contact & No Reported To 1/6/2017 11:25:45 AM …
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how to select particular nodes to assert using xml unit

I am comparing the xml files for a component . There I have some nodes which i need to compare. But I dont need all the nodes to be compared. So i there any way in xmlunit so that I can compare only those particular nodes. I use nodefilter and…
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Compare Xml in java unit text, ignoring an attribute in a node

I have to compare 2 xml strings. Actual
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Ignore all elements not present in the test XML with XMLUnit

In XMLUnit 2.x, can I ignore all elements in the actual ("control") XML that are not present in my test ("expected") XML? Example: Actual: 123 456 789 Test: 456 xxx I would want to detect the difference in …
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Ignore certain elements while compating xml XMLUnit

I want to compare two XML in one of the Junit test. I am using XMLUnit for comparison of xml.Can you please tell me if there is any easy way to ignore comparison of correlation-id in the xmls. XML1:
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Comparing two XML Strings

I am having 2 XML documents as…
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Not able to compare empty tags/elements in which one is self closed tag with attribute value and other one is normal tag with no attribute

Out put of Difference is : Expected attribute name 'nil' but was 'null' - comparing at…
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Ignore few children for comparison when comparing xml documents with XMLUnit

Is it possible to ignore a few children in elements when comparing XML documents with XMLUnit? I want to ignore any empty text nodes in the element when comparing them. Best Regards, Keshav
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Comparing xml objects java

I have an xml bundle file which I would like to read through and compare the objects within the bundle. The start position would be the mo tag until the next mo tag. I have done xmlunit but this compares 2 xml files. I would like to be able to…
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Compare subnodes in XMLUnit 2 - Expected child 'node2' but was 'null'

I need to compare XML files using XMLUnit 2 where xml subnodes can differ in order. Due to the underlying libraries that are used I can't influence order of subnodes. For comparison I am using: …
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Ignore a multiple occurrence of a tag while comparing using xmlUnit

I have an XML file which looks like below. Expected XML a.c 10 c b.h 14 h d.he …
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Does XMLUNIT provide option to ignore certain elements in XML's for comparison?

I am wondering if XMLUNIT provides a way to ignore some of the elements present in the XML before doing the comparison.For example, if I want to ignore field which is randomly generated by the server.Is there anything available out of the box in…
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Testing XML with XMLUnit with a variable value

I have some XML which I am testing, which has set as one of it's elements the date and time. This obviously will change every time the test is run. Is there a way to compare the XML and have this node value ignored, or just checked with a regular…
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