Re: xml diff question

Hi,

this is coping with much more than xml diff, but you can check Lars
Trieloff thesis at
http://weblogs.goshaky.com/weblogs/page/lars?entry=master_thesis_finished

Camille.

omprakash.v@xxxxxxxxxxxxx a icrit :
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> Hi,
>     Thanks Mike. Thought that would be the case (use a tree view to display
> the differences as you have described). The first one would ofcourse be the
> easier of the two but comes with the problem I have described.
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> Any other suggestions would be welcome.
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> cheers,
> prakash
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>> Subject:  xml diff question
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>> What's the best way to display the differences.
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> Well, it rather depends on what you want to do. There are two use cases
> where I use differencing and the requirements are completely different:
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> (a) Creating a version of a narrative document (like the XSLT 2.0 spec) in
> which changes since the previous version are highlighted: see
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>  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xslt20-20051103/Overview-diff.html
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> I think Norm's tool was produced with this kind of application in mind
> (though in the XSLT spec, I maintain the change markup by hand).
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> (b) Comparison of test results with reference results to find cases where
> the results are different. Here I find that the Stylus Studio differencing
> tool works pretty well for me: it gives you the tree views of both
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> side-by-side, allows you to view all nodes or only those that differ or
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> those that are the same, and to drill down into either tree to see the
> detail of the differences.
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> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
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