Extract assertXmlString

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/tests/xml/writer.tests.js b/tests/xml/writer.tests.js
index 020e638..f2408e0 100644
--- a/tests/xml/writer.tests.js
+++ b/tests/xml/writer.tests.js
@@ -7,9 +7,13 @@ var test = require("../testing").test;
 
 describe('xml.writer', function() {
     test('writing empty root element writes out xml declaration and empty root element', function() {
-        assert.equal(writer.writeString(new Element("root")),
-            '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>' +
-            '<root/>');
+        assertXmlString(new Element("root"), '<root/>');
     });
 });
 
+
+function assertXmlString(element, expectedString) {
+    assert.equal(writer.writeString(element),
+        '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>' +
+        expectedString);
+}