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The expected serialized output of this test ends with (on one line): </ul></font><p><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Some text in a paragraph</font></p> and our output ends with (newline after </ul>): </ul> </font><p><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Some text in a paragraph</font></p> I believe these are both valid renditions according to the serialization standard for HTML and indent="yes", which is what this test seems to test. Indentation is always tricky to test. In this case, I would simply solve it by adding an alternative outcome, though that is not ideal, because another processor might do it differently, or a later version of an existing processor might change its indentation and whitespace generation algorithm.
Currently fixed as proposed, but leaving it open for comments for now.
This test case wasn't designed to test serialization. In such cases it's usually best to replace the expected result with a logical test on the result tree contents rather than a serialization assertion. Alternatively, remove the indent="yes", which makes the results a bit more predictable.
Thanks, I wasn't sure because it seemed a test originating from an internal bug report. Fixed as proposed. Indentation is now off, resulting in easier comparison.
Was resolved > 30 days ago, closing.