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Maybe this draft W3C spec could help: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/xmlChunkEquality.html Cheers, Dimitre. On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:02:56 +0100, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You need to provide much more detailed specifications of your three equality > functions - you might like to look at the spec of deep-equals() in XPath 2.0 > to see the kind of things you need to take into account (or decide not to > take into account). For example, does it matter to you whether the elements > have the same in-scope namespaces? Are whitespace-only text nodes > significant? Are comments and processing instructions significant? > > It's a bit easier to write such functions in 2.0, but the essential > technique is the same as at 1.0: you will need a recursive function/template > that walks down the tree applying the same kind of test at each level. > > Michael Kay > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matt Adams [mailto:mattad@xxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: 28 October 2004 06:36 > > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: How to verify equivalence of two node trees ? > > > > Assume we have two node trees with the root nodes $aroot and $broot: > > > > <xsl:variable name="aroot" select="...." /> > > <xsl:variable name="broot" select="...." /> > > > > How can I test the equivalence of the two node trees ? > > More precisely there are should be three kinds of tests: > > > > 1.) Testing if tree a is equal to tree b only looking at the elements > > but ignoring possible existing attributes and their values > > > > 2.) Testing if tree a is equal to tree b regarding the > > elements and their > > attributes but ignoring the values of the attributes > > > > 3.) Finally testing if tree a is equal to tree b regarding elements, > > their attribute (names) and the attribbute values. > > > > How can I implement such a test in XSLT? > > Is there possibly a smarter solution in XSLT 2.0 ? > > > > Matt > > -- > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com > > http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
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