Comparing XML in a unit test in Python

This is an old question, but the accepted Kozyarchuk's answer doesn't work for me because of attributes order, and the minidom solution doesn't work as-is either (no idea why, I haven't debugged it).

This is what I finally came up with:

from doctest import Example
from lxml.doctestcompare import LXMLOutputChecker

class XmlTest(TestCase):
    def assertXmlEqual(self, got, want):
        checker = LXMLOutputChecker()
        if not checker.check_output(want, got, 0):
            message = checker.output_difference(Example("", want), got, 0)
            raise AssertionError(message)

This also produces a diff that can be helpful in case of large xml files.

First normalize 2 XML, then you can compare them. I've used the following using lxml

obj1 = objectify.fromstring(expect)
expect = etree.tostring(obj1)
obj2 = objectify.fromstring(xml)
result = etree.tostring(obj2)
self.assertEquals(expect, result)