Coverage increased (+0.04%) to 92.417% when pulling cd8e1f5 on zheng-wang:master into 038b8b9 on xmlunit:master.

Many thanks!

I'm deliberately not using author tags, would it be OK with you if I removed the "Created by" lines? You will certainly be credited in the release notes.

No problem. I have removed the author tags which were created by my IDE template.

Coverage increased (+0.04%) to 92.417% when pulling 581510f on zheng-wang:master into 038b8b9 on xmlunit:master.

It would be good to add something to the user guide, I'll try to find some time to start this.

Many thanks again.

I've just published 2.5.1-SNAPSHOT jars of the new module and updated the public javadocs at www.xmlunit.org

Cool, thanks.

I've reworked PlaceholderDifferenceEvaluator so it now also works for attributes and added infrastructure that should allow new placeholder keywords to become supported more easily. It would be good if you could take a look to ensure I've been moving into the direction you wanted it to go.

Great job Stefen! Now the code is less prototyped and more frameworkized. The separation of concerns (placeholder specific logic goes to different classes) is a must go path I believe.

The complexity of the code increased a little bit but I can't think of a simpler way to achieve the separation of concerns. Eventually it should not be a problem to me as the main direction I have is requirement (from API user's perspective) which is reflected in the unit tests. : )

OK, thanks.

I think I may have gone a bit too far and thus the API may be too limited. Right now the keyword between ${xmlunit. and } has to be a constant. I can easily envision something like ${xmlunit.matches(some-regex)} which would require to expand the placeholder language.

But we can fix that once we get there :-)