Bug#267598: ITP: xmldiff -- display the differences between XML documents
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:31:33AM -0400, Dan Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 33 lines which said: > What makes xmldiff different from diff. diff operates at the text level. It knows nothing about the syntax. xmldiff operates at the XML tree level. It displays only significant differences, not syntaxic variants. > Could you show me some output? Here, two files are identical, XML-speaking: % cat empty.xml % cat empty2.xml % diff empty.xml empty2.xml 1c1 < --- > % xmldiff empty.xml empty2.xml % Here, they are really different. % cat full.xml Me % cat full2.xml Me % xmldiff full.xml full2.xml [remove, /full[1]/foobar[1]] %
Bug#267598: ITP: xmldiff -- display the differences between XML documents
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:31:33AM -0400, Dan Weber wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 05:15:08PM +0200, Alexandre Fayolle wrote: > > XMLdiff is a python tool that figures out the differences between two > > similar XML files, in the same way the diff utility does it for text > > files. It can be used as a python library or as a command line tool. > > What makes xmldiff different from diff. Could you show me some output? Diff is line-based whereas xmldiff manipulates XML constructs such as elements attributes, text nodes. For instance, in XML changing the order of the attributes of an element is not meaningful. xmldiff has an option to ignore whitespace which makes it possible to compare a pretty printed XML document with a 1 line document containing the same elements. Finally xmldiff can produce XUptate instructions to display the differences which allows an XUpdate aware program to patch the original document. If all you XML documents are normalized and pretty printed, using diff will probably be more efficient than xmldiff. See http://www.logilab.org/projects/xmldiff/documentation for example output. -- Alexandre Fayolle LOGILAB, Paris (France). http://www.logilab.com http://www.logilab.fr http://www.logilab.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#267598: ITP: xmldiff -- display the differences between XML documents
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 05:15:08PM +0200, Alexandre Fayolle wrote: > XMLdiff is a python tool that figures out the differences between two > similar XML files, in the same way the diff utility does it for text > files. It can be used as a python library or as a command line tool. What makes xmldiff different from diff. Could you show me some output? Dan signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#267598: ITP: xmldiff -- display the differences between XML documents
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: xmldiff Version : 0.6.4 Upstream Author : Sylvain Thénault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.logilab.org/projects/xmldiff * License : GPL Description : display the differences between XML documents XMLdiff is a python tool that figures out the differences between two similar XML files, in the same way the diff utility does it for text files. It can be used as a python library or as a command line tool. It can work either with XML files or DOM trees. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR)
