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Hi there, I am looking for ways to create a HTML report of a comparison between two versions of a XML file, so basically I would need to create a function that compares the original file with the edited version. I would like to display the differences with some formatting as in a word processor's track changing mode. For example (simplified case), given the two XML files, i.e. Orig.xml: <doc> <string>This is a string</string> </doc> and Edited.xml: <doc ver="new"> <string>This is a text</string> </doc> I would like the output report to show something like this: ... <td>This is a <span style="color: red;"><del>string</del></span><span style="color: blue;"><ins>text</ins></span></td> ... Before I start getting my head around this, I wanted to have an expert's opinion: Can this be done easily with XSLT? (for a basic-level programmer like me, that is) I know formatting the output in HTML is not a problem, but finding the exact differences between the two files might be. Only text content of some elements (and always the same kind of element) should vary, not the structure of the document. My first preference would be to create a stylesheet because I can integrate it in my workflows, but if this is difficult a ready-made tool would be good as well as long as it's not too expensive (DeltaXML is too expensive). I hope someone can advise and even point me in the right direction. Thank you very much in advance. Cheers, Manuel
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