I’m using org.xmlunit 2.9 in java to compare two XMLs but there are certain exceptions for comparison (example: If XML1 contains a node <version value=”12.3″ /> and XML2 contains a node <version value=”123.45″ />, then it should set the result to EQUAL). To handle these exceptions I’m using DifferenceEvaluator but I don’t want to rely on the value of the node I want to check whether node name is ‘version’ when comparing the values.

This is what my DifferenceEvaluator code looks like:

DifferenceEvaluator ResponseEvaluator = new DifferenceEvaluator() { public ComparisonResult evaluate(Comparison comparison, ComparisonResult outcome) { if(outcome != ComparisonResult.EQUAL) { if(comparison.getControlDetails().getValue() != null && comparison.getTestDetails().getValue() != null) { if(comparison.getControlDetails().getValue().toString().equals("12.3")) { if(comparison.getType() != null && comparison.getType() == ComparisonType.ATTR_VALUE && comparison.getTestDetails().getValue().toString().contains("12")) { return ComparisonResult.EQUAL; } } } } }

Here, instead of comparison.getControlDetails().getValue().toString().equals("12.3") I want to use something like comparison.getControlDetails().getNodeName.equals("version")
and then proceed with comparing the attribute value. Is it possible to achieve this?