NAME

       Test::XML::Simple - easy testing for XML

SYNOPSIS

         use Test::XML::Simple tests => 8;

         # pass string with XML as argument
         xml_valid $xml, "Is valid XML";
         xml_node $xml, "/xpath/expression", "specified xpath node is present";
         xml_is, $xml, '/xpath/expr', "expected value", "specified text present";
         xml_like, $xml, '/xpath/expr', qr/expected/, "regex text present";
         xml_is_deeply, $xml, '/xpath/expr', $xml2, "structure and contents match";

         # XML::LibXML::Document can be passed as argument too
         #  that allow you to test a big documents with several tests
         my $xml_doc = XML::LibXML->createDocument( '1.0' );
         xml_valid $xml_doc, 'Is valid XML';
         xml_node $xml_doc, '/xpath/expression', 'specified xpath node is present';
         xml_like, $xml_doc, '/xpath/expression', qr/expected result/, 'regex present';

         # Not yet implemented:
         # xml_like_deeply would be nice too...

DESCRIPTION

       "Test::XML::Simple" is a very basic class for testing XML. It uses the XPath syntax to locate nodes
       within the XML. You can also check all or part of the structure vs. an XML fragment.  All routines accept
       as first argument string with XML or XML::LibXML::Document object.

TEST ROUTINES

   xml_valid $xml, 'test description'
       Pass an XML file or fragment to this test; it succeeds if the XML (fragment) is valid.

   xml_node $xml, $xpath, 'test description'
       Checks the supplied XML to see if the node described by the supplied XPath expression is present. Test
       fails if it is not present.

   xml_is_long $xml, $xpath, $value, 'test description'
       Finds the node corresponding to the supplied XPath expression and compares it to the supplied value.
       Succeeds if the two values match.  Uses Test::More's "is" function to do the comparison.

   xml_is $xml, $xpath, $value, 'test description'
       Finds the node corresponding to the supplied XPath expression and compares it to the supplied value.
       Succeeds if the two values match.  Uses Test::LongString's "is_string" function to do the test.

   xml_like_long $xml, $xpath, $regex, 'test description'
       Find the XML corresponding to the the XPath expression and check it against the supplied regular
       expression. Succeeds if they match.  Uses Test::More's "like" function to do the comparison.

   xml_like $xml, $xpath, $regex, 'test description'
       Find the XML corresponding to the the XPath expression and check it against the supplied regular
       expression. Succeeds if they match.  Uses Test::LongString's "like_string" function to do the test.

   xml_is_deeply_long $xml, $xpath, $xml2, 'test description'
       Find the piece of XML corresponding to the XPath expression, and compare its structure and contents to
       the second XML (fragment) supplied. Succeeds if they match in structure and content. Uses Test::More's
       "is" function to do the comparison.

   xml_is_deeply $xml, $xpath, $xml2, 'test description'
       Find the piece of XML corresponding to the XPath expression, and compare its structure and contents to
       the second XML (fragment) supplied. Succeeds if they match in structure and content. Uses
       Test::LongString's "is_string" function to do the test.

AUTHOR

       Joe McMahon, <mcmahon@cpan.org>

LICENSE

       Copyright (c) 2005-2013 by Yahoo! and Joe McMahon

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
       itself, either Perl version 5.6.1 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

SEE ALSO

       XML::LibXML, Test::More, Test::Builder.