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Posted to j-users@xerces.apache.org by Christopher Ebert <ce...@pocketthis.com> on 2002/08/05 20:56:49 UTC
RE: XML Difference API
Hi,
I don't know of an API -- I would suggest using a formatter and comparing text files. Use system calls if you have to do it from Java -- it will be much easier to get diff-like output if you just use diff :). I know that XML Spy will format XML if you write it out; there must be a command-line formatter either as part of the XML Spy suite or somewhere.
Good luck,
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Suresh Babu Koya [mailto:skoya@quark.co.in]
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 11:37 PM
To: xerces-j-user@xml.apache.org
Subject: XML Difference API
Greetings all,
Is there any API/libraries for differencing XML files with/without
whitespaces.
I just need some API that could let me know
1. Any differences between XML files in Diff format(Unix diff command).
2. A boolean(true) if there are no differences and XML files are identical.
--Suresh
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Re: XML Difference API
Posted by Mike McKay <mv...@decisionsoft.com>.
The DecisionSoft xmldiff tool should fulfill your requirements. There is
an option for standard diff output, along with colored output, html
output etc. You will also need to download xmlpp, an xml pretty printer.
Both are available (with source) for free from here:
http://software.decisionsoft.com/tools.html
For a quick demo you can try out the web version:
http://tools.decisionsoft.com/xmldiff.html
Enjoy
Mike
Paul Libbrecht wrote:
> I think I know there is an xmldiff tool somewhere. That can be useful.
>
> I would be interested by your results as well. In particular, I'd be
> interested to notions of patches similar to XUpdate.
>
> As of formatters, I think the sample called SAXWriter (used to be in
> Xerces 1.4) performs exactly this.
>
> Paul
>
> On Lundi, août 5, 2002, at 08:56 , Christopher Ebert wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't know of an API -- I would suggest using a formatter and
>> comparing text files. Use system calls if you have to do it from Java
>> -- it will be much easier to get diff-like output if you just use diff
>> :). I know that XML Spy will format XML if you write it out; there
>> must be a command-line formatter either as part of the XML Spy suite
>> or somewhere.
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Suresh Babu Koya [mailto:skoya@quark.co.in]
>> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 11:37 PM
>> To: xerces-j-user@xml.apache.org
>> Subject: XML Difference API
>>
>>
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> Is there any API/libraries for differencing XML files with/without
>> whitespaces.
>>
>> I just need some API that could let me know
>> 1. Any differences between XML files in Diff format(Unix diff command).
>> 2. A boolean(true) if there are no differences and XML files are
>> identical.
>>
>> --Suresh
>>
>
>
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Re: XML Difference API
Posted by Gottfried Szing <go...@szing.at>.
On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 21:35, Paul Libbrecht wrote:
> I think I know there is an xmldiff tool somewhere. That can be useful.
we are using
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmlunit/
for comparing xmls. maybe this also helps.
cu
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Re: XML Difference API
Posted by Paul Libbrecht <pa...@activemath.org>.
I think I know there is an xmldiff tool somewhere. That can be useful.
I would be interested by your results as well. In particular, I'd be
interested to notions of patches similar to XUpdate.
As of formatters, I think the sample called SAXWriter (used to be in
Xerces 1.4) performs exactly this.
Paul
On Lundi, août 5, 2002, at 08:56 , Christopher Ebert wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know of an API -- I would suggest using a formatter and
> comparing text files. Use system calls if you have to do it from
> Java -- it will be much easier to get diff-like output if you just use
> diff :). I know that XML Spy will format XML if you write it out; there
> must be a command-line formatter either as part of the XML Spy suite or
> somewhere.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Chris
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suresh Babu Koya [mailto:skoya@quark.co.in]
> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 11:37 PM
> To: xerces-j-user@xml.apache.org
> Subject: XML Difference API
>
>
> Greetings all,
>
> Is there any API/libraries for differencing XML files with/without
> whitespaces.
>
> I just need some API that could let me know
> 1. Any differences between XML files in Diff format(Unix diff command).
> 2. A boolean(true) if there are no differences and XML files are
> identical.
>
> --Suresh
>
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