IgnoreAttributes Property

Applies to TestComplete 15.47, last modified on January 20, 2023

Description

The IgnoreAttributes property specifies whether TestComplete ignores attributes and namespace declarations when comparing XML documents with the Compare method of the XMLCheckpoint object. For instance, if the property is True, TestComplete will consider the following nodes as equal (the ignored parts are marked with blue):

XML

<myElement xmlns:ns1="http://www.mycompany.com/tmpl/ns1" attr1="1" attr2="card">Some value</myElement>
<myElement>Some value</myElement>

Declaration

XMLCheckpointOptionsObj.IgnoreAttributes

Read-Write Property Boolean
XMLCheckpointOptionsObj An expression, variable or parameter that specifies a reference to an XMLCheckpointOptions object

Applies To

The property is applied to the following object:

Property Value

True, if TestComplete will ignore attributes and namespace declarations during comparison, and False otherwise.

Remarks

The XMLCheckpointOptions object provides access to a copy of the element’s data. Changes made to the comparison settings via the IgnoreAttributes property will not be stored in the XMLCheckpoint element and will not be displayed in the XMLCheckpointOptions Element editor.

Example

The following example demonstrates how you can obtain the XMLCheckpointOtions object, set its IgnoreAttributes property value to True and compare XMLCheckpoint with the XML document.

JavaScript, JScript

function IgnoreAttributesDemo()
{

  var XMLCheckpoint, XMLOptions, XMLDoc;
  // Obtains the XMLCheckpoint object.
  XMLCheckpoint = XML.MyXMLCheckpoint;
  // Obtains the XMLCheckpointOptions object.
  XMLOptions = XMLCheckpoint.Options;

  // Enables the IgnoreAttributes XML checkpoint option.
  XMLOptions.IgnoreAttributes = true;

  // Specifies the XML document path.
  XMLDoc = "D:\\Work Folder\\XMLFile.xml";
  // Compares MyXMLCheckpoint with the XML document.
  XMLCheckpoint.Compare(XMLDoc)

}

Python

def IgnoreAttributesDemo():
  # Obtains the XMLCheckpoint object.
  XMLCheckpoint = XML.MyXMLCheckpoint
  # Obtains the XMLCheckpointOptions object.
  XMLOptions = XMLCheckpoint.Options
  # Enables the IgnoreAttributes XML checkpoint option.
  XMLOptions.IgnoreAttributes = True
  # Specifies the XML document path.
  XMLDoc = "D:\\Work Folder\\XMLFile.xml"
  # Compares MyXMLCheckpoint with the XML document.
  XMLCheckpoint.Compare(XMLDoc)

VBScript

Sub IgnoreAttributesDemo
Dim XMLCheckpoint, XMLOptions, XMLDoc

  ' Obtains the XMLCheckpoint object.
  Set XMLCheckpoint = XML.MyXMLCheckpoint
  ' Obtains the XMLCheckpointOptions object.
  Set XMLOptions = XMLCheckpoint.Options

  ' Enables the IgnoreAttributes XML checkpoint option.
  XMLOptions.IgnoreAttributes = True

  ' Specifies the XML document path.
  XMLDoc = "D:\Work Folder\XMLFile.xml"
  ' Compares MyXMLCheckpoint with the XML document.
  XMLCheckpoint.Compare(XMLDoc)

End Sub

DelphiScript

procedure IgnoreAttributesDemo();
var XMLCheckpoint, XMLOptions, XMLDoc;
begin

  // Obtains the XMLCheckpoint object.
  XMLCheckpoint := XML.MyXMLCheckpoint;
  // Obtains the XMLCheckpointOptions object.
  XMLOptions := XMLCheckpoint.Options;

  // Enables the IgnoreAttributes XML checkpoint option.
  XMLOptions.IgnoreAttributes := True;

  // Specifies the XML document path.
  XMLDoc: = 'D:\Work Folder\XMLFile.xml';
  // Compares MyXMLCheckpoint with the XML document.
  XMLCheckpoint.Compare(XMLDoc);

end;

C++Script, C#Script

function IgnoreAttributesDemo()
{

  var XMLCheckpoint, XMLOptions, XMLDoc;
  // Obtains the XMLCheckpoint object.
  XMLCheckpoint = XML["MyXMLCheckpoint"];
  // Obtains the XMLCheckpointOptions object.
  XMLOptions = XMLCheckpoint["Options"];

  // Enables the IgnoreAttributes XML checkpoint option.
  XMLOptions["IgnoreAttributes"] = true;

  // Specifies the XML document path.
  XMLDoc = "D:\\Work Folder\\XMLFile.xml";
  // Compares MyXMLCheckpoint with the XML document.
  XMLCheckpoint["Compare"](XMLDoc)

}

See Also

About XML Collection
Creating XML Checkpoints
About XML Checkpoints

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