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

The question and the accepted answer (as of today) correspond to a legacy version of XMLUnit.

For those interested in knowing how to do it with XMLUnit v2 on Groovy:

def "XMLs must be identical"() {
    setup:
    def control = ''
    def test = '''
        
          
        
    '''

    when:
    Diff d = DiffBuilder.compare(Input.fromString(control))
        .withTest(Input.fromString(test))
        .ignoreWhitespace()
        .ignoreComments()
        .normalizeWhitespace()
        .build()

    then:
    !d.hasDifferences()
}

Perhaps there is a "groovier" way of doing it but I think it's OK for illustration purposes :)