One could also XPath evaluate the key content from two files and look for a set of common matches.
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 01:10 pm, Axel Weiß wrote: > Praveen Maruvekere wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > > > Is there any way to compare two XML files using Xalan ? > > > > > > > > If there is any direct API to do this, please do tell me. > > Hi Praveen, > > there is no standard way to compare xml files. > > It's up to you to define, when two xml files are seen to be equal (e.g. > do you count whitespaces? the order of attributes? the order of > elements?). So you have to implement it. > > It's a matter of taste, but I would not implement this with xalan. I'd > rather use the DOM of xerces and try to find a recursive (and easy) > algorithm that does the comparison. > > Hope it helps, > Axel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
