Thanks for the great feedback. That looks like it should work. James
On Jul 17, 10:41 pm, David Aguilar <dav...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 06:21:36PM -0700, James C. wrote: > > hello, > > > I am trying to create an analytics tool on an xml file and would like > > to be able to know the exact item in the xml tree that was added, > > created or deleted. For example, > > > <parent> > > <child>A</child> > > <child>B</child> > > <child>C</child> > > </parent> > > > Make a change and remove child B so now the file looks like the below: > > > <parent> > > <child>A</child> > > <child>C</child> > > </parent> > > > git diff will tell be that line 3 has been removed, but what i would > > really like to know is that <parent> has been changed. What would be > > perfect would be DOM access based on the change. Not sure if this is > > possible or not. Any ideas would be great. Thank you > > There's two steps to breaking down this problem. > > Step one is a tool that can compare two XML files and show you > the DOM information you want to see. You might have to write > it yourself, or maybe you can find one that does this already. > It should take both files as input on the command-line. > Even better would be if it also allowed you to compare > three files (where one is the merge-base) as well. > > It looks like someone may have already written something that > is either very close or identical to what you're looking for: > > http://www.logilab.org/859 > http://diffxml.sourceforge.net/ > > The next step is to integrate it with git. You can customize > "git difftool" and "git mergetool" and create a custom tool > which can call your tool. Here's an example for difftool: > > Let's say the tool is called 'xmldiff'. > You can teach difftool about it by setting: > > % git config --global difftool.xmldiff.cmd 'xmldiff "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"' > > ..and then invoke it using difftool: > > % git difftool -t xmldiff -- foo.xml > -- > David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
