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XMLUnit: removing parent wrapper

Is there a way in XMLUnit 2 to make these two documents return as the same (or similar)? I can do some preprocessing to get the child nodes, but I wanted to see if this could be done directly with XMLUnit.

Doc1:

<a><b><c>test</c></b></a>

Doc2: 

<c>test</c>
Solution

  • No, XMLUnit expects to be given the roots of the trees that it is supposed to compare. Once you pick the child node, you can use Input.fromNode or a similar approach - but you knew that.

    It wouldn't be terribly difficult to extend the input builder or create a Source wrapper to enable the selection of the "real root" via XPath or similar means, but there is no built-in solution right now.