Rspec XML Helpers

Rspec Xml Helpers

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Add rspec-xml_helpers to your project's Gemfile and then bundle install.

gem 'rspec-xml_helpers', '~> 1.0'

Add the following to your spec_helper.rb:

require 'rspec/xml_helpers'

Now you can do the following in your specs:

expect('<xml/>').to match_xml('<xml/>')

The match_xml helper has the following qualities:

• XML attribute ordering does not effect equality.
• Order of XML elements with the same name is significant.
• Order of XML elements with different names does not effect equality.
• Self-closed elements are considered equal to empty elements.
• Whitespace is ignored in XML nodes that contain children.

This matcher has a few known limitations:

• XML namespaces are ignored.
• XML entities are ignored.
• XML nodes may not contain both text and child nodes.

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