XMLUnit.NET 2.7.0-beta-01

This is the very first release of XMLUnit.NET that supports .NET Standard 2.0 in addition to the traditional .NET Framework 3.5. Only the build process and the nuget packages have changed, there is no other difference between this release and XMLUnit.NET 2.6.0. If you don't need support for .NET Standard there is no reason to upgrade.

This release has been labeled beta as the packaging needs more thorough testing by the community.

Many thanks to @Shatl who performed most of the heavy lifting which has made this release possible.

XMLUnit.NET 2.6.0

This release fixes a few bugs and introduces a new experimental feature.

The full list of changes for XMLUnit.NET:

• add a new experimental module xmlunit-placeholders which aims to
  use ${xmlunit.FOO} expressions inside of the control document to
  allow for a DSL-like approach of defining more complex tests.
  This initial seed only supports ${xmlunit.ignore} which can be
  used to make XMLUnit ignore the element containing this text.

• fixed the message when CompareConstraint or
  ValidationConstraints (both NUnit 2.x and 3.x) as well as
  EvaluateXPathConstraint or HasXPathConstraint (only the NUnit
  3.x versions) pass but the assertion fails because the constraint
  itself was wrapped in a Not constraint.

• the NUnit 3.x EvaluateXPathConstraint failed to resolve the nested
  constraint, leading to erroneous messages if the assertion failed.
  Issue #25

• the XmlDocument instances used internally in Convert and
  Transformation now get their XmlResolver property set to null
  by default - which happens to be the default value of .NET 4.5.2 and
  later anyway. This is in accordance with the OWASP recommendations
  for XML eXternal Entity injection
  preventions.

  This may be a breaking change and you may need to provide an
  explicit XmlResolver instance of your own if you need to load
  external entities.

  Issue #27.

• added a new ISource implementation
  ElementContentWhitespaceStrippedSource which is similar to
  WhitespaceStrippedSource but only affects text nodes that solely
  consist of whitespace and doesn't affect any other text nodes. Also
  added convenience IgnoreElementContentWhitespace methods to
  DiffBuilder and CompareConstraint.
  Issue similar to xmlunit/#119.

• the configured NodeFilter is now applied before comparing
  XmlDocumentType nodes.

  This change breaks backwards compatibility as the old behavior was
  to ignore XmlDocumentType when counting the children of the
  XmlDocument node but not when actually comparing the
  XmlDocumentType. Prior to this change if one document had a document
  type declaration but the other didn't, a HAS_DOCTYPE_DECLARATION
  difference was detected, this will no longer be the case now. If you
  want to detect this difference, you need to use a more lenient
  NodeFilter than NodeFilters.Default
  (i.e. NodeFilters.AcceptAll) but then you will see an additional
  CHILD_NODELIST_LENGTH difference.

  Issue #26.

XMLUnit.NET 2.5.1

this release fixes a serious bug in the difference engine when documents only differ in namespace prefix.

The full list of changes for XMLUnit.NET:

• elements that only differed in namespace prefix resulted in a false
  ELEMENT_TAG_NAME difference when compared.
  Issue #22

XMLUnit.NET 2.5.0

this release upgrades the XSLT used by CommentLessSource to use XSLT 2.0 and adds an option to select the XSLT version.

The full list of changes for XMLUnit.NET

• CommentLessSource, DiffBuilder#IgnoreComments and
  CompareConstraint#IgnoreComments now all use XSLT version 2.0
  stylesheets in order to strip comments. New constructors and methods
  have been added if you need a different version of XSLT (in
  particular if you need 1.0 which used to be the default up to
  XMLUnit 2.4.0).
  Issue similar to xmlunit/#99.

XMLUnit.NET 2.4.0

This release changes DefaultComparisonFormatter in order to simplify creating custom ComparisonFormatters.

The full list of changes for XMLUnit.NET

• made DefaultComparisonFormatter more subclass friendly.
  Issue similar to xmlunit/#93.

XMLUnit.NET 2.3.1

This release adds xml docs to the binary distribution and the nuget package, it doesn't contain any functional changes.

XMLUnit.NET 2.3.0

This release allows the schema used in W3C XML schema validation to be specified as XmlSchema when using the Validator or the corresponding constraints.

The full list of changes for XMLUnit.NET:

• Validator and SchemaValidConstraint now accept using XmlSchema
  instances for the schema when validating instance documents.
  Issue similar to xmlunit/#89.

XMLUnit.NET 2.2.0

With this release ISources created from strings or byte[]s can be
used more than once.

The full list of changes for XMLUnit.NET:

• Input.FromByteArray and Input.FromString now return ISources
  that can be used multiple times.
  Issue similar to xmlunit/#84.

XMLUnit.NET 2.1.1

This release fixes a single bug in the CompareConstraint and ValidationConstraint for NUnit2. If you are not using the NUnit2 constraints, there is no need to upgrade from 2.1.0.

The full list of changes:

• CompareConstraint and ValidationConstraint for NUnit2 threw NullReferenceExceptions when combined with another failing Constraint.
  Issue similar to xmlunit/#81.

XMLUnit.NET 2.1.0

The headline feature of this new release are new NUnit Constraints for XPath assertions.

In addition a few DifferenceEvaluator implementations have been added,
a few bugs have been fixed and smaller improvements been made.

The full list of changes:

• added CompareConstraint.WithNamespaceContext
  port of PR #54 by @cboehme.
• added new implementations inside DifferenceEvaluators for common
  tasks like changing the outcome for specific differences or ignoring
  changes inside the XML prolog.
• new HasXPath constraints that check for the existence of an XPath
  inside of a piece of XML or verify additional assertions on the
  XPath's stringified result.
  Port of corresponding matchers in XMLUnit for Java by @mariusneo.
• DiffBuilder.WithComparisonFormatter now also fully applies to the
  Differences contained within the Diff.
  Issue xmlunit/#55