xml diff?

[Liam R. E. Quin]

There is a really "dumb" but sometimes useful approach at the
purely text level.

You can use Unix diff more or less as follows:
(1) turn newline into control-A newline (say)
(2) turn space outside tags into space newline
(3) insert newline before and after each tag
(4) format tags so they atr
     <gi
	att1="value1"
	att2="value2"
	.
	.
    >
(5) use Unix diff on the two processed files
(6) reverse the processing before presenting the diffs to the user.

I've seen shell scripts to do this floating around.
Heck, I think I might even have written one :-)


There are plenty of papers on tree differences, and I think
others have already mnentioned some. Eila Kuikka did a thesis
on processing structured documents using a syntax-directed approach
(Kuopio 1996) that may be useful, too, as one starting point for
investigating the theory.

Lee

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