Compare two XML strings ignoring element order

Question

Suppose I have two xml strings

  a
  b



  b         


        

Answer 1

For xmlunit 2.0 (I was looking for this) it is now done, by using DefaultNodeMatcher

Diff diff = Diffbuilder.compare(Input.fromFile(control))
   .withTest(Input.fromFile(test))
   .withNodeMatcher(new DefaultNodeMatcher(ElementSelectors.byNameAndText))
   .build()

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