How to compare 2 XML files

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Xavier - 30 Nov 2005 15:12 GMT

Hi,

I have a soft generating report in XML files. I am searching a soft or
simple Java code to compare 2 XML files, generating report only with the
differences, conserving the XML tree of data.

Any idea ?

Thanks,

Xavier

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Roedy Green - 30 Nov 2005 17:11 GMT

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:12:58 +0100, "Xavier"
<xno.spam.ni.pub@net.nosp.celer.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly
quoted someone who said :

>I have a soft generating report in XML files. I am searching a soft or
>simple Java code to compare 2 XML files, generating report only with the
>differences, conserving the XML tree of data.

parse the two trees. Then a simple minded compare would recursively
sort the nodes at each level, the look for dups, and whatever was not
a dup it would report on. Then it would process the subtrees of each
of the dups recursively.

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Andrew E - 02 Dec 2005 06:25 GMT

> Hi,
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> Any idea ?

Look up xmlunit for java.
There was also a C# solution whose name escapes me that worked pretty well.

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