Hi, > sorry for the radio silence, "real life" interfered in an urgent way. > I'll look at your code and come back to you. There is no Timeline :) you already wrote it: It must be fun!
> DifferenceEvaluators.Default mandates a certain sense of similarity like > TEXT and CDATA nodes of the same content are similar. I can envision > use-cases where this doesn't match my expectation at all. This is > especially true for differences in the order of child nodes which is > also SIMILAR by default. If we always throw in DE.Default we impose > this particular world view on all tests. > > Even this rare cases could simply be handled with a method > > ".deactivateDefaultDifferenceEvaluator()" > Maybe, I'm not completely convinced. :-) You convinced me, I will update my code. > Maybe I'm misunderstanding what SimpleIgnoreNodesDifferenceEvaluator > would do. The missing feature I talk about is a way to say "I'm not > interested in any differences between the sub-trees /x/y/z of the > documents". This is not anything I'd like to add to DifferenceEvaluator > but rather provide as a new extension point DifferenceEngine needs to > provide. Thanks, now I understand what you mean. I was not thinking to ignore a whole tree. In my cases, it was always enough to ignore a simple Text-Element or Attribute: a generated UUID, a date-time element or a version number. Nice point! > I've moved the shared test resources to a separate repository. This > means you need to run "git submodule update --init" once inside your > working copies after merging github's master branches of xmlunit or > xmlunit.net. Thanks, something new for me. A little bit like "svn:externals" in svn. > I've created a branch in order to experiment with separating the "do we > want to stop comparing" functionality from "how severe is this > difference". > https://github.com/xmlunit/xmlunit/compare/ComparisonController looks really great! I can't wait to update the DiffBuilder. Harald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Xmlunit-general mailing list Xmlunit-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xmlunit-general
