On Fri, 4 May 2007, Anamika Majumder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Stephan - I have another question. I am trying to compare two xml
> documents but would like to Skip the comparison in a few of those
> nodes (e.g the documents should be treated as identical even if two
> elements 'foo' and 'bar' are different in the two).
> 
> I see in the examples, that we could implement the
> DifferenceListener,

Yes, I was about to recommend that.

> but it seems like then the documents would be treated as
> similar/identical even if nodes other than 'foo' and 'bar' are
> different.

Why?  You will have to be more specific in your DifferenceListener
implementation and only return
RETURN_IGNORE_DIFFERENCE_NODES_IDENTICAL if the Difference is one
between foo and bar elements.  In any other case return
RETURN_ACCEPT_DIFFERENCE.

> Is there a way so that I can specify using xpaths, that I would like
> to skip comparison of just foo and bar.

No, unfortunately there is not.

Stefan

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