I have been trying to do some tests with ExsltSets.difference()
and am a bit confused by the results. I am just trying to mimic
Unix diff in a way where I get the changes with the appropriate
tree structure to the outside. If I am going about this the
wrong way or there is a simpler way to do this in code please
let me know. Here is a code snipet of what I am attempting:
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
documentA = builder.parse(_fileA);
documentB = builder.parse(_fileB);
NodeList childrenA = documentA.getChildNodes();
NodeList childrenB = documentB.getChildNodes();
NodeList result = ExsltSets.difference(childrenB, childrenA);
// Print result to a file
Not very complicated. Here is what I am seeing when I dump the
results though.
Example 1: (What I expect to come out)
File A File B Result
<?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml version="1.0"?>
<A> <A> <A>
</A> <B>Test</B> <B>Test</B>
</A> </A>
Example 2:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml version="1.0"?>
<A> <A> <A>
<B>Test</B> <B>Test</B> <B>Test</B>
</A> </A> </A>
****** I would have expected the output to have been an empty node
list but not the same thing that I input
Example 3:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml version="1.0"?>
<A> <A> <A>
<B>Test</B> <B>Test</B> <B>Test</B>
<C></C> <C></C>
</A> </A> </A>
****** Here I would have expected just this to come back:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<A>
<C></C>
</A>
Thanks,
-Kent
