RE: Is there a diff-like utility for SXML documents?

Thank you for the links.   I am thirty pages into Tancred Lindholm's remarkable thesis...what a colorful presentation!  


> 
> Matching and diffing tree-structured-data is a tricky problem, and typically 
> requires 3-way diffs/merge (i.e. a closest common-ancestor).
> 
> Here is a tool (inc open-source code in Java) for 3-way merging normal XML: 
> http://www.cs.hut.fi/~ctl/3dm/index.html
> (Described and analyzed at length in this thesis: 
> http://www.cs.hut.fi/~ctl/3dm/thesis.pdf.)
> 
> Here is another approach: www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/harmony-sync-tr.pdf
> 
> It would be great to see something like this for sxml!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris
> 
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> Given two SXML documents, I would like a way to show the differences between 
> them.   I was imagining a tool like the Un*x diff program, except comparing 
> element by element instead of line by line.   Any suggestions will be much 
> appreciated.
> 
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