I have found XMLUnit to be very helpful for testing Java and Jython code that generates XML. At its heart XMLUnit is an XML-aware diff - it parses expected and actual XML and pinpoints any differences. It is smart enough to ignore things like attribute order, different quoting and escaping styles, and insignificant whitespace.
Now I am working on a CPython project and have a similar need. Is there any comparable tool for Python? Basically I'm looking for a tool to compare XML and show diffs in an intelligible fashion that is usable from Python unit tests (using py.test, if it matters). Thanks, Kent http://xmlunit.sourceforge.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
