jamesfredley commented on PR #15965:
URL: https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/15965#issuecomment-4997825734

   Fair point on the brittleness. Worth separating the goal from the assertion 
style:
   
   The primary objective (pre-release review, Codebase 3 / hygiene quick-win) 
is to **remove the `jodd-wot` dependency** - `jodd-wot 3.3.8` dates to 2012 and 
is effectively unmaintained, and it's a single `testImplementation` usage in 
`grails-fields/build.gradle`. Getting it off the dependency list is the win.
   
   On *how* to replace the assertion, the review lists two options: "modern 
assertions" **or** "Jsoup or equivalent". The trade-off:
   
   - **String assertions** (current PR): removes `jodd-wot` with **zero new 
dependencies**, but is more brittle as you note.
   - **Jsoup**: robust HTML parsing, but re-adds a test dependency to replace 
the one we're removing.
   
   I'm happy to switch these to Jsoup (`org.jsoup:jsoup`, `testImplementation`) 
if you'd rather have a real parser and consider the added test dep acceptable - 
that still achieves the `jodd-wot` removal, just trading one modern dep for one 
archived one. Which would you prefer: keep it dependency-free with tightened 
assertions, or move to Jsoup?
   


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