I use James Clark's XML canonicalizer to convert both XML files to
canonical form, and then compare them as character strings.

Michael Kay

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> Gary Cornelius
> Sent: 05 August 2003 15:16
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> Subject:  How do we compare (diff) XML files in XSLT?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> While working with stylesheets I often need to compare XML 
> files which I normally do using windiff, Xemacs Compare type 
> programs. I am curious if anyone knows if there are any open 
> source stylesheets that will compare xml files as xml rather 
> than text?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Gary
> 
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