Github user svanteschubert commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/pull/892
@robertdale Generally you are right, but here we are talking about
normalisation, which implies a certain order.
I find your statement to test XML with XML tools and graphs with graph
tools hard to follow.
It sounds a bit like the eat-your-own-dogfood principle, which is not bad
in general, but not applicable here.
One goal of regression tests is to run fast, another is to provide
human-readable output.
A line based compare is quite appropriate for this task, XML tools are far
more unnecessary complex and time-consuming.
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