From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-03-18T12:43:19+09:00
Subject: Re: XML Unit?

Phlip wrote:

> Aidan Rogers wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is there a ruby equivalent of Java's XML Unit, whereby you can compare two
>>pieces of XML for structure (regardless of whitespace, formatting, etc.)?
> 
> 
> That is a job for XSLT. (I suspect.)

Could be.   You might transform the each bit of XML to another, 
canonical, string, omitting the content.  Then see if they both give the 
same string.

There's no native Ruby  XSLT lib, though, if that's an issue.  But it 
should be trivial to write a lib that uses the REXML stream parser to 
simply pass through the markup structure while swallowing the content.


James