org.jibx.extras
Class DocumentComparator

java.lang.Object
  org.jibx.extras.DocumentComparator

public class DocumentComparator
extends java.lang.Object

XML document comparator. This uses XMLPull parsers to read a pair of documents in parallel, comparing the streams of components seen from the two documents. The comparison ignores differences in whitespace separating elements, but treats whitespace as significant within elements with only character data content.

Author:

Dennis M. Sosnoski

Constructor Summary

DocumentComparator(java.io.PrintStream print)
Constructor.

Method Summary

boolean

compare(java.io.Reader rdra, java.io.Reader rdrb) Compares a pair of documents by reading them in parallel from a pair of parsers.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DocumentComparator

public DocumentComparator(java.io.PrintStream print)
                   throws org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException

Constructor. Builds the actual parser.

Parameters:

print - print stream for reporting differences

Throws:

org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException - on error creating parsers

Method Detail

compare

public boolean compare(java.io.Reader rdra,
                       java.io.Reader rdrb)

Compares a pair of documents by reading them in parallel from a pair of parsers. The comparison ignores differences in whitespace separating elements, but treats whitespace as significant within elements with only character data content.

Parameters:

rdra - reader for first document to be compared

rdrb - reader for second document to be compared

Returns:

true if the documents are the same, false if they're different