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+
+package eu.dnetlib.dhp.oa.provision;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.StringReader;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+import org.dom4j.Document;
+import org.dom4j.DocumentException;
+import org.dom4j.io.SAXReader;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.oa.provision.model.JoinedEntity;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.oa.provision.utils.ContextMapper;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.oa.provision.utils.XmlRecordFactory;
+
+public class XmlRecordFactoryTest {
+
+	private static final String otherDsTypeId = "scholarcomminfra,infospace,pubsrepository::mock,entityregistry,entityregistry::projects,entityregistry::repositories,websource";
+
+	@Test
+	public void testXMLRecordFactory() throws IOException, DocumentException {
+
+		String json = IOUtils.toString(getClass().getResourceAsStream("joined_entity.json"));
+
+		assertNotNull(json);
+		JoinedEntity je = new ObjectMapper().readValue(json, JoinedEntity.class);
+		assertNotNull(je);
+
+		ContextMapper contextMapper = new ContextMapper();
+
+		XmlRecordFactory xmlRecordFactory = new XmlRecordFactory(contextMapper, false, XmlConverterJob.schemaLocation,
+			otherDsTypeId);
+
+		String xml = xmlRecordFactory.build(je);
+
+		assertNotNull(xml);
+
+		Document doc = new SAXReader().read(new StringReader(xml));
+
+		assertNotNull(doc);
+
+		//TODO add assertions based of values extracted from the XML record
+	}
+}