Description attributes

The descriptions element specifies attributes which will be considered as descriptions. The comparison of these attributes can be a little more lax than the comparison for other attributes.

The attributes of this element are:

• "removeNewLines": true if new lines must be removed for the comparison (false by default)
• "trimType": specifies if the content must be right trimmed ("TrimRight"), or trimmed at the left and right ("Trim")

This element can have the following children :

• The applyRegex children (optional) specify a regex which an be applied to the attribute value
• The description child (mandatory) specify the attribute of the element which will be considered as a description

applyRegex children

The applyRegex children (optional) specify a regex which an be applied to the attribute value. For example, if we have:

   <rule>
      <appliesOn>
         <nodeName name="desc" />
      </appliesOn>  
      <descriptions>
         <applyRegex replaceFrom="\s+" replaceTo=" " />
         <applyRegex replaceFrom="&#10;" replaceTo="&#xA;" />            
         <description name="value" /> 
      </descriptions>
   </rule>

The comparison of the following nodes will return:

Left	Right	Result
<desc value="the value" />	<desc value="the value" />	Identical
<desc value="the &#xA; value" />	<desc value="the &#10; value" />	Identical
<desc value="the value1" />	<desc value="the value2" />	Different

Example

For example:

   <rule>
      <appliesOn>
         <nodeName name="description" />
      </appliesOn>  
      <descriptions trimType="Trim">
         <applyRegex replaceFrom="\s+" replaceTo=" " />
         <applyRegex replaceFrom="&#10;" replaceTo="&#xA;" />            
         <description name="value" /> 
      </descriptions>
   </rule>