Comparing two XML strings/files in Groovy/Java

Question

I\'m writing unit tests for checking some XML builder.

Now I\'m running into the problem of syntactical differences between the expected result and the actual result

Answer 1

You can use the Groovy XMLUnit utility like this:

XMLUnit.setIgnoreWhitespace(true)
XMLUnit.setIgnoreComments(true)
XMLUnit.setIgnoreDiffBetweenTextAndCDATA(true)
XMLUnit.setNormalizeWhitespace(true)

XMLUnit.compareXML(expectedXml, actualXml)

To compare XML files while ignoring the syntactical differences.