NAME

Test::XML - Compare XML in perl tests

SYNOPSIS

use Test::XML tests => 3;
is_xml( '<foo />', '<foo></foo>' );   # PASS
is_xml( '<foo />', '<bar />' );       # FAIL
isnt_xml( '<foo />', '<bar />' );     # PASS

DESCRIPTION

This module contains generic XML testing tools. See below for a list of other modules with functions relating to specific XML modules.

FUNCTIONS

is_xml ( GOT, EXPECTED [, TESTNAME ] )

This function compares GOT and EXPECTED, both of which are strings of XML. The comparison works semantically and will ignore differences in syntax which are meaningless in xml, such as different quote characters for attributes, order of attributes or empty tag styles.

Returns true or false, depending upon test success.

isnt_xml( GOT, MUST_NOT_BE [, TESTNAME ] )

This function is similiar to is_xml(), except that it will fail if GOT and MUST_NOT_BE are identical.

SEE ALSO

Test::XML::SAX, Test::XML::Twig.

Test::More, XML::SemanticDiff.

AUTHOR

Dominic Mitchell, <cpan@semantico.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2002 by semantico

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.