Item9301: assert_html_equals gives false positives

assert_html_equals says two pieces of HTML are equal when they are clearly not, if the expected value contains a vertical bar.

The cause is options=>'rex' in the call to Unit::HTMLDiffer's diff method.

This command illustrates the problem:

perl -MUnit::HTMLDiffer -we'$d = new Unit::HTMLDiffer(); print $d->diff($ARGV[0], $ARGV[1], {options=>"rex"})."\n";' 'abc|' 'xyz'

It prints 1, even though abc| and xyz are different.

I am changing assert_html_equals to use options=>'', so that Unit::HTMLDiffer uses cmp instead of a regex-based comparison.

-- MichaelTempest - 10 Jul 2010

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