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is there a way to hash an element?

Subject: is there a way to hash an element?
From: "Graydon graydon@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 22:08:51 -0000
 is there a way to hash an element?
Hello all --

So I've got about half a gibabyte of XML messages describing various
health care actions.  Many of these are structural duplicates of each
other; the top elements differ by their attribute values, but the
structure and values of the descendant elements is the same.  The amount
of duplication varies from none to thousands.

I've got an apparently useful heuristic based on descendant attribute
values, but would -- it is health care data -- really like to have a
more robust way to group the elements into set of equivalent top-level
names by their structural sameness.  (I can't hand-check the whole data
set.)

So I find myself wanting an equivalent of sha256sum for elements so I
could generate a grouping key from the descendant elements and their
associated attributes as a unit.

Is there such a thing?  Equivalent approaches?

Thanks!
Graydon

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