xml-compare is a Java library for comparing 2 XMLs with condition to ignore sequence of children nodes and sequence of attributes.

xml-compare implemented by customized lexer and parser from scratch without any additional library, so its jar package is very small.

xml-compare is mainly built for using in unit tests to comparing 2 XMLs and also as an example of simple and stupid lexer and parser of XML.

add this in project's pom.xml:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.jarunj.xml</groupId>
  <artifactId>xml-compare</artifactId>
  <version>0.7.3</version>
</dependency>

import com.jarunj.xml.XML;
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XML xml1 = new XML("<ns:Legacies><Legacy version=\"3.0.0\" year=10>a lot of them<Legacy><ns:Legacies>");
XML xml2 = new XML("<ns:Legacies><Legacy year=10 version=\"3.0.0\">a lot of them<Legacy><ns:Legacies>");
assert(xml1.equals(xml2)); // not throw Exception