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Re: Testing XML don't use xUnit

• From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
• To: ihe.onwuka@gmail.com
• Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:19:28 +0100

>> It sounds like you are suggesting it's bad to have xpaths in junit
>> tests?  ...and to use Schematron instead?
>>
>
> Yes. Because changes to the structure of the xml will break the JUnit
> test whereas Schematron assertions are resilient to that.

Obviously if the test needs to handle the possibility of different
structures, then just use the appropriate xpath / xquery in the test
(!)

If I'm missing something here, please provide an example.


-- 
Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com

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