What is the best way to compare XML files for equality?

Question

I\'m using .NET 2.0, and a recent code change has invalidated my previous Assert.AreEqual call (which compared two strings of XML). Only one element of the XML is actually

Answer 1

I wrote a small library with asserts for serialization, source.

Sample:

[Test]
public void Foo()
{
   ...
   XmlAssert.Equal(expected, actual, XmlAssertOptions.IgnoreDeclaration | XmlAssertOptions.IgnoreNamespaces);
}