PyXMLUnit example

This example shows the usage of assertXMLEqual, one of the assertions provided by PyXMLUnit.

The code for the simples test we could possibly imagine (example.py )



from xmltestcase import XMLTestCase

class TestSimpleXMLChecks(XMLTestCase):
        
    def testAssertEqualStrings(self):
        self.assertXMLEqual("<root>equal</root>", "<root>equal</root>")
        
    def testAssertNotEqualStrings(self):
        self.assertXMLNotEqual("<root>equal</root>", "<root>not equal</root>")
  
if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

Running the example from the command line you should see the two tests passing.

python example.py

..
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Ran 2 tests in 0.040s

OK

The problems you may find running this simple test is that you may not have a compliant XML DOM parser installed, check available ones in http://pyxml.sourceforge.net