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Measuring HTML equivalence?

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good library for Java to use to measure HTML equivalence?

For example <td class="one two three" name="goat"> would be equivalent to <td name="goat" class="three two one">. I would like to compare entire many-lined strings of html in this manner using Java.

Any suggestions?

UPDATE:

so I tried the use of XmlUnit's Diff.similar() and found that I was getting that these two were similar:

<html three="3" two="2" one="1"></html> and <html one="one" two="two"></html>

This is undesired behavior... Are there any other options?

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You could use a html parser like NekoHTML or JTidy, and then use the Diff class of XMLUnit to compare the two XML documents.

Valentin Rocher  2010-01-27 17:58:41
Diff().similar() sounds like what I'm looking for. Thanks.
Alex Baranosky  2010-01-28 03:20:42
so I tried the use of .similar() and found that I was getting that these two were similar:<html three="c" two="b" one="a"></html> and <html one="a" two="b" ></html> which is not the desired behavior...
Alex Baranosky  2010-02-06 17:47:09
I just tried to compare the two documents you specified using Diff.similar and it returned false...How did you do it ?
Valentin Rocher  2010-02-06 20:28:42

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