On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 03:49:23PM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:54:53 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > > That's formally correct. But I was babbling about `useful� [...]
> I think I know what you mean. Well, yes, the point seems to be, that > order may or may not matter and that if it does not, the tools sometimes > reorder needlessly [...] So the trick is to let the merge tool know, > where the order matters. If the XML schema spec was > good, it would tell this, but I don't really believe it is as good. Yes, you got the gist of what I was trying to say. I think the problem is more general than just reordering. Maybe the schema helps, but perhaps we'd need a more thorough description of what is semantically relevant (Note: I singled out XML just as an example for files which follow a slightly different model of our beloved `C source code�, which plays surprisingly well with line-oriented diff/patch. In hindsight it nearly looks like a lucky coincidence[1], doesn't it?). --------- [1] I don't quite think it *is*, but I think its roots are on things forgotten to most of us: e.g. 80-column punch cards and things like that. Regards -- tom�s
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