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+<?php
+class Issue1472Test extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
+{
+ public function testAssertEqualXMLStructure()
+ {
+ $doc = new DOMDocument;
+ $doc->loadXML('<root><label>text content</label></root>');
+
+ $xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
+
+ $labelElement = $doc->getElementsByTagName('label')->item(0);
+
+ $this->assertEquals(1, $xpath->evaluate('count(//label[text() = "text content"])'));
+
+ $expectedElmt = $doc->createElement('label', 'text content');
+ $this->assertEqualXMLStructure($expectedElmt, $labelElement);
+
+ // the following assertion fails, even though it passed before - which is due to the assertEqualXMLStructure() has modified the $labelElement
+ $this->assertEquals(1, $xpath->evaluate('count(//label[text() = "text content"])'));
+ }
+}