dom-compare
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Library to compare two DOM trees
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dom-compare
NodeJS module to compare two DOM-trees
Works with Node.JS v0.10+
DOM Comparison
Consider two documents. Expected:
<document>
<!-- comment -->
<element attribute="10" attributeX="100">
<text> text content </text>
<inner>
<node />
</inner>
</element>
<![CDATA[ cdata node]]>
</document>
and actual one:
<document>
<element attribute="100">
<text>text content</text>
<inner />
<inner2 />
</element>
<![CDATA[cdata node ]]>
</document>
One can compare them, get the result (is them equals, or not), and get extended report (why them are different).
var compare = require('dom-compare').compare,
reporter = require('dom-compare').GroupingReporter,
expected = ..., // expected DOM tree
actual = ..., // actual one
result, diff, groupedDiff;
// compare to DOM trees, get a result object
result = compare(expected, actual);
// get comparison result
console.log(result.getResult()); // false cause' trees are different
// get all differences
diff = result.getDifferences(); // array of diff-objects
// differences, grouped by node XPath
groupedDiff = reporter.getDifferences(result); // object, key - node XPATH, value - array of differences (strings)
// string representation
console.log(reporter.report(result));
Diff-object has a following form:
{
node: "/document/element",
message: "Attribute 'attribute': expected value '10' instead of '100'";
}
By using GroupingReporter
one can get a result of a following type
{
'/document/element': [
"Attribute 'attribute': expected value '10' instead of '100'",
"Extra attribute 'attributeX'"
]
}
Comparison options
Comparison function can take a third argument with options like this:
var options = {
stripSpaces: true,
compareComments: true,
collapseSpaces: true,
normalizeNewlines: true
};
result = compare(expected, actual, options);
Comments comparison
By default, all comments are ignored. Set compareComments
options to true
to compare them too.
Whitespace comparison
By default, all text nodes (text, CDATA, comments if enabled as mentioned above) compared with respect
to leading, trailing, and internal whitespaces.
Set stripSpaces
option to true
to automatically strip spaces in text and comment nodes. This option
doesn't change the way CDATA sections is compared, they are always compared with respect to whitespaces.
Set collapseSpaces
option to true
to automatically collapse all spaces in text and comment nodes.
This option doesn't change the way CDATA sections is compared, they are always compared with respect to
whitespaces.
Set normalizeNewlines
option to true
to automatically normalize new line characters in text,
comment, and CDATA nodes.
Cli utility
When installed globally with npm install -g dom-compare
cli utility is available.
See usage information and command-line options with domcompare --help
You can try it on bundled samples:
$ cd samples
$ domcompare -s ./expected.xml ./actual.xml
Documents are not equal
/document/element
Attribute 'attribute': expected value '10' instead of '100'
Attribute 'attributeX' is missed
Extra element 'inner2'
/document/element/inner
Element 'node' is missed
/document
Expected CDATA value ' cdata node' instead of 'cdata node '
DOM Canonic Form
Implemented as XMLSerializer interface
Simple rules
- Every node (text, node, attribute) on a new line
- Empty tags - in a short form
- Node indent - 4 spaces, attribute indent - 2 spaces
- Attributes are sorted alphabetically
- Attribute values are serialized in double quotes
Consider the following XML-document...
<document>
<element>DOM Compare</element>
<emptyNode></emptyNode>
<element attribute1="value" attribute2="value">
<element>Text node</element>
</element>
</document>
...and code snippet...
var canonizingSerializer = new (require('dom-compare').XMLSerializer)();
var doc = ...; // parse above document somehow
console.log(canonizingSerializer.serializeToString(doc));
You'll receive the following output
<document>
<element>
DOM Compare
</element>
<emptyNode />
<element
attribute1="value"
attribute2="value">
<element>
Text node
</element>
</element>
</document>