Direct Testing with DOM

• More or less Infoset based

• Supported out of the box in Java 1.4 and later

• But very painful: JDOM, XOM, etc. are much easier to use

• Basic approach (irrespective of API):

  1. Parse document (possibly in a fixture)

  2. Navigate to the piece you want to test

  3. Use Java (or Python, or C#, or whatever) to make the test