Re: diff of xml

Petr Kuzel <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:19:18 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.xml.devel
Organization Sun Microsystems
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Roger I Martin PhD wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Curious if any future diff is planned that does not do the diff with a 
> flat file comparison but checks the equivalence of the xml hierarchical 
> info.  A problem I am having is some individuals like to use XMLSpy 
> which doesn't leave the flat file alone when editing like NetBeans 
> does.  After I give them a document to edit and they send it back, 
> finding the differences can be brutal because they have changed the 
> white space characters.  Any thoughts?

I'm not aware about such plans. Anybody can overtake
this task. There is prepared infrastrucure in diff
<http://diff.netbeans.org/> module.

   Cc.

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