assertXMLEqual behaviour

[Jon Dunleavy]

Hi,

I am using django 1.6 but I can't find any information on the bugtracker as to whether this has changed but is this intentional behaviour of assertXMLEqual:

# this passes

self.assertXMLEqual(

    "<test><test>Value</test></test>",

    """<test><test>Value</test></test>""",

)

# this fails

self.assertXMLEqual(

    "<test><test>Value</test></test>",

    """<test>

        <test>Value</test>

    </test>""",

)

Thanks,

[James Bennett]

As far as I can tell from reading the source, there's no deliberate intention one way or another.

However, from a strict/pedantic point of view, the example you give is demonstrating correct behavior; due to whitespace, the second document contains nodes not present in the first one.