Re: Comparing two models for differences

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:51:30PM -0500, Brian Smith wrote:
>  I am getting diffs that look like 
> the one below. The problem is basically that MDR is giving me the "root 
> nodes" in an indeterminate order. Obviously, that is not incorrect, but 
> it would be nice if MDR would at least provide "best effort" in 
> preserving the ordering of _all_ collections, whether they are 
> explicitly marked isOrdered=true or not.

Wouldn't it be possible to solve your problems by reordering XMI files
outside MDR by applying some post-processor which lexicographically
reorders all collections with isOrdered=false and, if necessary,
replaces all xmi.id's by a canonical series of xmi.id's ? I also have
a use-case for this: I would like to derive something like a hashCode
for models which is identical for different representations of the
same model.

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Holger Krug
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