• From: Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt <STAMMW@d...>
• To: xml-dev List <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 14:49:03 +0100

If already working with "tidy" this little shell script might be useful:

#!/bin/bash
tidy -q -xml $1 >/tmp/tmp.1.xml
tidy -q -xml $2 >/tmp/tmp.2.xml
diff /tmp/tmp.1.xml /tmp/tmp.2.xml



Mit besten Gruessen / Best wishes,

Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt
Developer, XML Compiler, L3
WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
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             Farrukh Najmi                                                 
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For my needs the xmlunit tool may actually be the best as it gives an
XPATH for each difference found:

<http://xmlunit.sourceforge.net/>

Thanks again for the help.

Farrukh Najmi wrote:
>
> The diffx project definitely look better than others [1] I have seen.
> Thanks Rick!
>
> [1] https://diffxml.dev.java.net/
>
> Rick Jelliffe wrote:
>> DiffX ?
>>
>>    http://sourceforge.net/projects/diffx/
>>
>> Probably better for smaller than larger documents.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Rick Jelliffe
>>
>> Farrukh Najmi wrote:
>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>
>>> I am looking for a decent open source diff tool for XML instance
>>> documents. I realize this has come up before but I did not find
>>> anything that I could use in the archives.
>>>
>>> The ideal tool would have:
>>>
>>>     * Java library
>>>     * A liberal open source license that allows royalty-free
>>>       redistribution
>>>     * Active development
>>>     * Ability to compare two XML instance documents and give a set of
>>>       differences where each difference identifies the XPATH to
>>>       element or attribute that is different
>>>     * Namespace awareness
>>>
>
>


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Regards,
Farrukh

Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com



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