Ignore certain Xml tags

[Kajal Gupta]

I wish to implement request matching while keeping some specific tags as optional.

Example - 

 <Person id="213">

    <Class>

         <No>22</No>

    </Class>

    <Name>abc</Name>

</Person>

While matching this to a request body, I wish to keep <Class> tag as optional. How can I achieve that? 

P.S. ${xmlunit.ignore} does not help to ignore specific tags