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RE: defining xml diff/changes in xml : XUpdate etc

• To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• Subject: RE: defining xml diff/changes in xml : XUpdate etc
• From: "Andrew S. Townley" <andrew.townley@b...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:38:14 +0100
• Cc: 'Rakshan Murthy' <rakshanm@h...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <BECXOEX20yraoJONfGA000075f4@b...>
• References: <BECXOEX20yraoJONfGA000075f4@b...>

You may have also seen this (courtesy of Sam Ruby's blog) last week.  I
only saw it on Friday, but it seems to at least be active and doing
something similar.  Maybe you can work with Andy Roberts on it to try
and get the features you need.

http://andyroberts007.blogspot.com/2006/04/delta-web_03.html

ast

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:37, Michael Kay wrote:
> I'm not sure you had a response to this.
> 
> XUpdate is pretty dormant. It certainly can't be described as a standard in
> any sense of the word, though it might still do what you want.
> 
> XQuery update extensions are on the way, but not there yet. And it's not an
> XML format, unfortunately.
> 
> Have you considered representing the diffs as an XSLT stylesheet that does
> the transformation from old to new?
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rakshan Murthy [mailto:rakshanm@h...] 
> > Sent: 05 April 2006 21:01
> > To: xml-dev@l...
> > Subject:  defining xml diff/changes in xml : XUpdate etc
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Im looking for a standard for defining xml diffs/changes in 
> > an xml format 
> > (which may be used for patching later).
> > I've looked at Xupdate, and its quite close to what im looking for.
> > http://xmldb-org.sourceforge.net/xupdate/xupdate-wd.html
> > 
> > however, im concerned if this is a "standard", or is widely popular.
> > What makes me queasy is that their domain site 
> > http://www.xmldb.org, is no 
> > longer theirs (or doesnt seem to be).
> > 
> > If anyone has experience with xml diffs and can point me to a 
> > relatively 
> > stable standard, your help is appreciated.
> > The icing would be a OSS api that diffs xmls and generates 
> > this standard.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > regards,
> > rax
> > 
> > 
> > 
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