XMLUnit.NET 2.10.0

XMLUnit helps testing code that creates XML.

XMLUnit.NET is separated into several assemblies:

• XMLUnit.Core contains all algorithms and classes needed to validate XML, perform XPath queries or compare two pieces of XML.
• XMLUnit.NUnit2.Constraints contains NUnit 2.x constraints on top of XMLUnit.Core.
• XMLUnit.NUnit3.Constraints contains NUnit 3.x constraints on top of XMLUnit.Core.

While XMLUnit is focussed on testing, parts of it may be useful in different contexts as well. The IDifferenceEngine may be the driver behind a visual XML diff tool for example.

The main use case of XMLUnit is comparing XML generated by the code under test with some known source of "good XML". This is the responsibility of the Org.XmlUnit.Diff.IDifferenceEngine and its main (currently sole) implementation DOMDifferenceEngine.

Sometimes a full comparison is more than is needed in which case only parts of the generated document are validated using XPaths. This is the responsibility of XPathEngine.

The Validationnamespace contains everything needed to validate documents against XML Schema (or even the schema document itself) or a DTD.

The Builder namespace contains fluent builders that may provide an API that is more convenient to use in many cases.

XMLUnit.NET 2.6.0 adds a new experimental component XMLUnit.Placeholders that aims to provide a small DSL for configuring the test engine via the control XML document rather than code. The initial code base only supports a placeholder of ${xmlunit.ignore} to be used in order to make XMLUnit ignore the element containing this sequence.

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XMLUnit.NET is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.