diff --git a/org.springframework.integration.xml/.classpath b/org.springframework.integration.xml/.classpath
index 353a778842..99f677533e 100644
--- a/org.springframework.integration.xml/.classpath
+++ b/org.springframework.integration.xml/.classpath
@@ -13,5 +13,6 @@
 	<classpathentry kind="var" path="IVY_CACHE/org.springframework.ws/org.springframework.xml/1.5.1.A/org.springframework.xml-1.5.1.A.jar" sourcepath="/IVY_CACHE/org.springframework.ws/org.springframework.xml/1.5.1.A/org.springframework.xml-sources-1.5.1.A.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry combineaccessrules="false" kind="src" path="/org.springframework.integration"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="var" path="IVY_CACHE/org.springframework/org.springframework.test/2.5.5.A/org.springframework.test-2.5.5.A.jar" sourcepath="/IVY_CACHE/org.springframework/org.springframework.test/2.5.5.A/org.springframework.test-sources-2.5.5.A.jar"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="var" path="IVY_CACHE/org.custommonkey.xmlunit/com.springsource.org.custommonkey.xmlunit/1.2.0/com.springsource.org.custommonkey.xmlunit-1.2.0.jar" sourcepath="/IVY_CACHE/org.custommonkey.xmlunit/com.springsource.org.custommonkey.xmlunit/1.2.0/com.springsource.org.custommonkey.xmlunit-sources-1.2.0.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
 </classpath>
diff --git a/org.springframework.integration.xml/ivy.xml b/org.springframework.integration.xml/ivy.xml
index 2609eb2f9c..681c84f550 100644
--- a/org.springframework.integration.xml/ivy.xml
+++ b/org.springframework.integration.xml/ivy.xml
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 	<dependencies>
 		<dependency org="org.junit" name="com.springsource.org.junit" rev="4.4.0" conf="test->runtime"/>
+		<dependency org="org.custommonkey.xmlunit" name="com.springsource.org.custommonkey.xmlunit" rev="1.2.0" conf="test->runtime"/>
 		<dependency org="org.springframework" name="org.springframework.test" rev="2.5.5.A" conf="test->runtime"/>
 		<dependency org="org.springframework" name="org.springframework.context" rev="2.5.5.A" conf="compile->runtime"/>
 		<dependency org="org.springframework.ws" name="org.springframework.oxm" rev="1.5.1.A" conf="compile->runtime"/>
diff --git a/org.springframework.integration.xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/source/DomSourceFactoryTests.java b/org.springframework.integration.xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/source/DomSourceFactoryTests.java
index d0a44debaa..505e2c0220 100644
--- a/org.springframework.integration.xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/source/DomSourceFactoryTests.java
+++ b/org.springframework.integration.xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/source/DomSourceFactoryTests.java
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 package org.springframework.integration.xml.source;
 
-import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+import static org.custommonkey.xmlunit.XMLAssert.*;
 
 import java.io.StringReader;
 
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ public class DomSourceFactoryTests {
 		Source source = sourceFactory.createSource(doc);
 		assertNotNull("Returned source was null", source);
 		assertEquals("Expected DOMSource", DOMSource.class, source.getClass());
-		assertEquals("Wrong content in source ", docContent, getAsString(source));
+		assertXMLEqual("Wrong content in source ", docContent, getAsString(source));
 	}
 
 	@Test
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ public class DomSourceFactoryTests {
 		Source source = sourceFactory.createSource(docContent);
 		assertNotNull("Returned source was null", source);
 		assertEquals("Expected DOMSource", DOMSource.class, source.getClass());
-		assertEquals("Wrong content in source ", docContent, getAsString(source));
+		assertXMLEqual("Wrong content in source ", docContent, getAsString(source));
 	}
 
 	@Test(expected = MessagingException.class)
diff --git a/org.springframework.integration.xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/source/StringSourceTests.java b/org.springframework.integration.xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/source/StringSourceTests.java
index 9f01df6614..ebdb8e8846 100644
--- a/org.springframework.integration.xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/source/StringSourceTests.java
+++ b/org.springframework.integration.xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/source/StringSourceTests.java
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 package org.springframework.integration.xml.source;
 
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+import static org.custommonkey.xmlunit.XMLAssert.*;
 
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ public class StringSourceTests {
 		StringSource source = (StringSource)sourceFactory.createSource(doc);
 		BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(source.getReader());
 		String docAsString =reader.readLine();
-		assertEquals("Wrong content in StringSource","<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><item>one</item>", docAsString);
+		assertXMLEqual("Wrong content in StringSource","<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><item>one</item>", docAsString);
 	}
 	
 	
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ public class StringSourceTests {
 		StringSource source = (StringSource)sourceFactory.createSource(docString);
 		BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(source.getReader());
 		String docAsString =reader.readLine();
-		assertEquals("Wrong content in StringSource","<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><item>one</item>", docAsString);
+		assertXMLEqual("Wrong content in StringSource","<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><item>one</item>", docAsString);
 	}
 	
 	
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ public class StringSourceTests {
 		StringSource source = (StringSource)sourceFactory.createSource(buffer);
 		BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(source.getReader());
 		String docAsString =reader.readLine();
-		assertEquals("Wrong content in StringSource","<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><item>one</item>", docAsString);
+		assertXMLEqual("Wrong content in StringSource","<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><item>one</item>", docAsString);
 	}
 
 }