compare_xml

Try to do a 'xml-comparison' of want and got. Plain string comparison doesn't always work because, for example, attribute ordering should not be important. Ignore comment nodes, processing instructions, document type node, and leading and trailing whitespaces.

def compare_xml(
    want: string,
    got: string
) - > boolean

Try to do a 'xml-comparison' of want and got. Plain string comparison doesn't always work because, for example, attribute ordering should not be important. Ignore comment nodes, processing instructions, document type node, and leading and trailing whitespaces.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
want	string	The expected XML string or fragment to serve as the baseline for comparison
got	string	The actual XML string or fragment to be validated against the expected structure

Returns

Type	Description
boolean	True if the XML structures are semantically equivalent, False otherwise