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Re: [xsl] Visual XHTML diff

2009-12-28 05:51:13
Am 24.12.2009 um 23:40 schrieb Aaron Gray:

You have both missed my point. I want an XSLT stylesheet to compared
or merge XML(XBEL)/XHTML files resulting in XHTML or XBEL output
files. Maybe I shouldhave not said "Visual".
I am wondering how to do a visual diff of two XHTML files, one newer
one and a second older one, showing new text in green and
old text in
red strike through.
I need to do this in XSLT 1.0 if it is at all possible, although I
would have thought it was as its a Turin computable problem.

Many thanks in advance,

Anyone give me any clue how to approach this problem ?

Apparently this is not a task that would be very easy to do in XSL, depending 
on the level of detail you want in the result. It would be no fun at all to 
implement a longest common string algorithm in XSL 1.0. So, it seems most 
solutions use other tools to prepare something which could then be turned into 
a visual representation in a way you like.

I am currently evaluating those options to handle the diff task:

* http://nwalsh.com/java/diffmk/ [not under development]
* http://xmlunit.sourceforge.net/ [active development]
* http://www.xmldifftool.com/ [author says a new version is under development]

- Michael

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