[Zope] doing a "diff" of two XML export files.

Anthony Baxter Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au>
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:58:03 +1000


>>> Anthony Baxter wrote
> It seems to me that it would be a Cool Thing to be able to take
> two Zope XML export files, say from different days, and feed it into 
> something that would read the two, and produce a "change file" which
> specifies what has changed (think "diff" for XML). 

> thoughts? A little bird told me that people are already considering
> something for this task... any ideas?
> would the XML folks have already put something like this together?

I went web crawling, and found a package at IBM's alphaworks called 
XMLTreeDiff - it's java-based, and I've given up for now on trying to
get a working Java environment on my box (the dependencies are rather
scary...) 

just a pointer for anyone else who's interested.

Anthony