Hi, here's the new extension i'd like to propose to be taken into PECL
http://belski.net/phpz/xmldiff-0.7.3.tar.gz Here's the example of how it can work: $from = "<root><a /></root>"; $to = "<root><b /></root>"; $xdiff = new XMLDiff\Memory; $diff = $xdiff->diff($from, $to); $new = $xdiff->merge($from, $diff); The extension is able to produce diffs of two XML documents and then to apply the difference to the source document. Whereby the diff is an XML document containing copy/insert/delete instruction nodes and is human readable. The diff corresponding to the snippet above would look like <?xml version="1.0"?> <dm:diff xmlns:dm="http://www.locus.cz/diffmark";> <root> <dm:delete> <a/> </dm:delete> <dm:insert> <b/> </dm:insert> </root> </dm:diff> So far three comparsion possibilities are implemented: - DOMDocument objects - local files, based on the pure libxml functionality - xml documents in memory, based on the pure libxml functionality Files and memory methods are relatively simple, comparing DOM objects would of course require some more resources. The xmldiff extension is inspired by the perl module DifferenceMarkup, which can be found under http://search.cpan.org/~vbar/XML-DifferenceMarkup-1.04/lib/XML/DifferenceMarkup.pm . The underlaying library libdiffmark is in public domain. It's bundled and is used by the xmldiff extension, which itself i'd like to put under the BSD license. Ideas about functionality improvements are highly appreciated. Cheers Anatol -- PECL development discussion Mailing List (http://pecl.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
