From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2009-03-24T07:42:28+09:00
Subject: Re: comparing xml


On Mar 23, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Phlip wrote:

> I should have explored that. Isn't the code simply printing out both  
> XMLs, with consistent blanks and indenting, and then comparing their  
> strings for pure equality?

it *is* comparing strings, but strings built up inside rexml using the  
approach you outlined.


> If so, would that break over details like attributes out of order?


ah - good catch - i'll check on that.  my alternate approach,  
comparing xmlsimple data structures will not, i believe, suffer from  
that, but i wanted to avoid a dependancy.

i'll check and report back

cheers.

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