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 <m...@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 >> >> m...@mattwynne.net >> 07974 430184 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rspec-users mailing list >> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users cheers, Matt m...@mattwynne.net 07974 430184 _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
