How to use

DocumentComparator

in

org.jibx.extras

/**
 * Prints error description text. The generated text include position
 * information from both documents. 
 *
 * @param msg error message text
 */
protected void printError(String msg) {
  if (m_differencePrint != null) {
    m_differencePrint.println(msg + " - from " +
      buildPositionString(m_parserA) + " to " +
      buildPositionString(m_parserB));
  }
}

/**
 * Check if two text strings match, ignoring leading and trailing spaces.
 * Any mismatch is printed immediately, with the supplied lead text.
 *
 * @param texta String to compare
 * @param textb String to compare
 * @param lead error text lead
 * @return <code>true</code> if the texts match, <code>false</code> if
 * not
 */
protected boolean matchText(String texta, String textb, String lead) {
  if (equalValues(texta, textb)) {
    return true;
  } else if (!m_schemaCompare && texta.trim().equals(textb.trim())) {
    return true;
  } else {
    printError(lead);
    if (m_differencePrint != null) {
      m_differencePrint.println(" \"" + texta +
      "\" (length " + texta.length() + " vs. \"" +
      textb + "\" (length " + textb.length() + ')');
    }
    return false;
  }
}

InputStreamReader frdr = new InputStreamReader
  (new FileInputStream(fout), encoding);
DocumentComparator comp = new DocumentComparator(System.err);
if (comp.compare(frdr, brdr)) {
  return true;
} else {

int typeb = m_parserB.getEventType();
if (typea != typeb) {
  printError("Different document structure");
  return false;
} else if (typea == XmlPullParser.START_TAG) {
  if (!matchNames()) {
    printError("Different start tags");
    return false;
  } else {
    if (!matchAttributes()) {
      same = false;
    if (!matchText(texta, textb,
      "Different text content between elements")) {
      same = false;
  if (!matchNames()) {
    printError("Different end tags");
    return false;
    if (!matchText(texta, textb, "Different text content")) {
      same = false;
    if (!matchText(texta, textb,
      "Different text content between elements")) {
      same = false;

    ns.equals(m_parserB.getAttributeNamespace(j))) {
    flags[j] = true;
    if (!equalValues(value, m_parserB.getAttributeValue(j))) {
      if (match) {
        printError("Attribute mismatch");
        match = false;
        buildName(ns, name) + " value '" + value +
        "' != '" + m_parserB.getAttributeValue(j) + '\'');
if (!found && !(m_schemaCompare && isSchemaLocation(name, ns))) {
  if (match) {
    printError("Attribute mismatch");
    match = false;
    buildName(ns, name) + "=\"" + value +
    "\" is missing from second document");
  String ns = m_parserB.getAttributeNamespace(i);
  String name = m_parserB.getAttributeName(i);
  if (!m_schemaCompare || !isSchemaLocation(name, ns)) {
    if (match) {
      printError("Attribute mismatch");
      match = false;
      buildName(ns, name) +
      " is missing from first document");

  return normalizeDecimal(trima).equals(normalizeDecimal(trimb));
} else {
  return false;

ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
PrintStream pstream = new PrintStream(baos);
DocumentComparator comp = new DocumentComparator(pstream);
if (comp.compare(frdr, brdr)) {