Calling deep-equal on every element would do the trick. It could
potentially be quite expensive, but with luck deep-equal
doesn't take
very long when the arguments are obviously not equal, for
example when
they are elements with different names.
For the example given, deep-equal would not find any pair of
items that match. The 'selection' element has two children
but does not itself appear in the 'original' so there is no
item in the selection that can be deep-equal to any item in
the 'original'.
The first child of 'selection' does seem to be deep-equal to
an item in 'original' but the 'selection' item's following
sibling - a text node - is not equal to the following sibling
of the item in the 'original'. If spaces were to be
normalised then the content of the 'selection' text node
would be a prefix of the content of the 'original' text node.
> I was assuming a deep-equal comparison applied to the Target
> element - but perhaps I didn't examine the problem
> carefully enough.
I want to match the nodes *inside* the <selection> node against the
nodes *inside* the original node. But as I understand your message this
is not possible due to spaces?
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Best regards,
Jethro Borsje
http://www.jborsje.nl
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