How to compare XDocument while ignoring the order of elements.

[ghost]

Hi ✌️

I'm trying to compare two XDocument using the BeEquivalentTo.

using System.Xml.Linq;
using FluentAssertions;
using FluentAssertions.Execution;

const string expectedXml = @"
<root>
    <a></a>
    <b></b>
    <c></c>
</root>
";

const string actualXml = @"
<root>
    <b></b>
    <a></a>
    <c></c>
</root>
";

var actual = XDocument.Parse(actualXml);
var expected = XDocument.Parse(expectedXml);

actual.Should().BeEquivalentTo(expected); // throws

I was hopping to have the same behavior as the collection form of BeEquivalentTo, where the order does not matter, but the method is using XNode.DeepEquals, where the order matters.
Note that there might be an issue with .net itself, because according to this post, the order in XNode.DeepEquals should not matter.

My question is : is there an elegant way of testing this ? I thought of somehow manually ordering all the elements, but it might take a while for large documents.

[dennisdoomen]

BeEquivalentTo uses it own implementation instead of XNode.DeepEquals to verify equivalency. But since the order of elements in XML is significant, we decided to respect that aspect of XML.

[ghost]

Got it. Might need to use something like Collection.Satisfy to replace.