XMLUnit.Placeholders 2.11.1

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dotnet add package XMLUnit.Placeholders --version 2.11.1
                    


                    

                
NuGet\Install-Package XMLUnit.Placeholders -Version 2.11.1
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<PackageReference Include="XMLUnit.Placeholders" Version="2.11.1" />
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<PackageVersion Include="XMLUnit.Placeholders" Version="2.11.1" />
                    


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<PackageReference Include="XMLUnit.Placeholders" />
                    


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paket add XMLUnit.Placeholders --version 2.11.1
                    


                    

                
#r "nuget: XMLUnit.Placeholders, 2.11.1"
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#addin nuget:?package=XMLUnit.Placeholders&version=2.11.1
                    


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#tool nuget:?package=XMLUnit.Placeholders&version=2.11.1
                    


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XMLUnit.NET

XMLUnit provides you with the tools to verify the XML you emit is the one you want to create.

This package provides a way to simplify comparisons by using a control document with a simple expression language to compare against.

Requirements

XMLUnit requires .NET Standard 2.0 (tested with .NET 8 rigt now) and should still support .NET Framework 3.5 and Mono.

The placeholders package only depends on XMLUnit.Core.

Usage

More documentaion is available as part of the user guide.

If you are creating documents with a structure like

<message>
  <id>12345</id>
  <content>Hello</content>
</message>

and can't predict the id inside your tests but still want to assert it is a number, using just the core library will require some custom code as a IDifferenceEvaluator

Using the placeholders package you can write a control document like

<message>
  <id>${xmlunit.isNumber}</id>
  <content>Hello</content>
</message>

and run the test like

string control = <the above>;
string test = <the program output>;
Diff diff = DiffBuilder.Compare(control).WithTest(test)
    .WithDifferenceEvaluator(new PlaceholderDifferenceEvaluator()).build();
Assert.IsFalse(d.HasDifferences());

Currently the fillowing placeholders are defined:

  • ${xmlunit.ignore} to completely ignore the element
  • ${xmlunit.isNumber}
  • ${xmlunit.matchesRegex()} with regex parameter
  • ${xmlunit.isDateTime()} with optional format parameter

Additional Documentation

XMLUnit.NET is developed at github. More documentation, releases and an issue tracker can be found there.

Changelog

See the Release Notes at github.

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