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XMLDIFF(1) User's Manual XMLDIFF(1)NAMExmldiff - Tree 2 tree correction between xml documentsSYNOPSISxmldiff [ options ] original_file modified_file xmldiff [ options ] -r original_directoty modified_directoryDESCRIPTIONxmldiff is a utility for extracting differences between two xml files. It returns a set of primitives to apply on source tree to obtain the destination tree. The implementation is based on Change detection in hierarchically structured information, by S. Chawathe, A. Rajaraman, H. Garcia-Molina and J. Widom, Stanford University, 1996OPTIONS-h, --help display this help message and exit. -V, --version display version number and exit -H, --html input files are HTML instead of XML -r, --recursive when comparing directories, recursively compare any subdirectories found. -x, --xupdate display output following the Xupdate xml specification (see http://www.xmldb.org/xupdate/xupdate-wd.html#N19b1de). -e <encoding>, --encoding=<encoding> specify the encoding to use for output. Default is UTF-8 -n, --not-normalize-spaces do not normalize spaces and new lines in text and comment nodes. -c, --exclude-comments do not process comment nodes -g, --ext-ges include all external general (text) entities. -p, --ext-pes include all external parameter entities, including the external DTD subset. --profile=<file> display an execution profile (run slower with this option), profile saved to file (binarie form).EXIT STATUS0 means no difference were found. A positive number means some differences were found. A negative number means an error occured.KNOWN PROBLEMSxmldiff uses an algorithm with a (too) high algorithmical complexity, which makes it unsuitable to process large XML documents. If your document has more than about 100 nodes, you should probably look for an alternative solution. Any suggestion to this issue is welcome by Logilab. Please tell us if you are aware of a simpler algorithm to solve this problem.REQUIRESpython, pyxmlSEE ALSOxmlrev(1) http://www.logilab.org/project/xmldiff/ http://www.xmldb.org/xupdate/xupdate-wd.html#N19b1deAUTHORSylvain Thenault <sylvain.thenault@logilab.fr> This manpage was written by Alexandre Fayolle <alexandre.fayolle@logilab.fr>. xmldiff December 22, 2004 XMLDIFF(1)