I checked the "Console". Can you send me your xml file contact extendsclass. It appears that tag names and the first attribute name get smashed together in the orange and yellow sections. Can you send me your XML files contact extendsclass. Please suggest. I will not have time to improve it for a while : but I will watch when I have time! Next day I restored my browser, this page was loaded, so I input two xml files again same files as day before.
This time comparing not working, files was evalueated as different with red lines. There is probably some problem with reloading of page. Great page though.
Have a nice day. Thank you for putting in the effort to this tool that ended up helping me a lot and also saving me a lot of time. I need to develop exatly that on my system, what language did you use?
Any tips on what I can research to develop something like this? The following examples, could compares them as same?
This is a Great tool. Though i have one bug to report. Whenever i am adding an attribute on right side xml, then its not highlighting the diffrence, instead it moves to next line and hoghlight that with proper color code instead. While on left side its working as expected. Hope you can help on that. I am also assuming your application doesn't have a diff facility that follows the 'abstraction' concept. I did some searching and found one app ExamXML that seems to come close with highlighting features.
I downloaded the eval version and tested your files against it:. It does a pretty good job of highlighting the differences. It seems pretty interactive and pops up with how many differences. It looks like you can change the colors it uses, so maybe you can use grays and whites to de-emphasize the tags.
It also seems to have a lot of options that you can pre-set for your users as well. I want to note that you will be hard pressed to find an XML comparison tool that will not show the tag names, as the tags are what give the content context. If you take away context, it becomes difficult to understand the data being displayed. Anyhow, maybe this tool might be helpful. Have you also tried to show your users some of these tools and see what they are willing to tolerate, sometimes they may surprise you.
Hope this helps! One problem with using plain-text compare tools with XML is that the physical form of an XML document its indenting, etc. Also, depending on the editor your users use, it may have XML differencing built-in. Pry them from my cold dead hands, kinda stuff. Beyond Compare is excellent as BobbyShaftoe has already mentioned. For merging however, I like to use Araxis Merge.
We use it for similar purposes quite often. Thanks for the Responses But these all seem too technical. My users normally do not see the xml tags because their XML authoring tool abstracts them away. Are there any tools that display differences in the text content, but do not show or de-emphazise the xml tags. I'm going to throw this out there: your users should learn.
Compare Files Tool Menus. Compare Directories Tool. Viewing Status Information. Editor Highlights. Printing a Document. Editing Documents Details about the various types of supported documents and their unique editing features.
Publishing Details about transformation scenarios and customizing various types of output. Working with Archives Describes how to use the Archive Browser to work with various type of archives. Framework and Author Mode Customization Tutorials and details about customizing frameworks and the visual Author editing mode.
Troubleshooting A compilation of common problems and their solutions. Copyright Legal information. Figure 1. Compare Files To perform a two-way comparison, follow these steps: Open a file in the left panel and the file you want to compare it to in the right panel. To highlight the differences between the two files, click the Perform File Differencing button from the toolbar. You can use the drop-down menu on the left side of the toolbar to change the algorithm for the operation.
You can also use the Diff Options button to access the Files Comparison preferences page where you can choose to ignore certain types of markup and configure various options. The resulting comparison will show you differences between the two files. The line numbers on each side and colored marks on the right-side vertical stripe help you to quickly identify the locations of the differences.
Adjacent changes are grouped into blocks of changes. This layout allows you to easily identify and focus on a group of related changes. Figure 2. Two-Way Differences. Highlighting Colors The differences are also highlighted in several colors, depending on the type of change, and dynamic lines connect the compared fragments in the middle section between the two panes. Gray - Identifies an addition of a node in the left side your outgoing changes.
Blue - Identifies an addition of a node in the right side incoming changes. Lighter Shade - Identifies blocks of changes that can be merged in their entirety. Darker Shade - Identifies specific changes within the blocks that can be merged more precisely. Other notes for pasting fragments: As long as the fragment is more than 10 characters, the application will attempt to automatically detect the content type. If one of those content types is detected, the fragments will be displayed with syntax highlights.
If you save modified fragments, a dialog box opens that allows you to save the changes as a new document. Navigate Differences To navigate through differences, do one of the following: Use the navigation buttons on the toolbar or in the Compare menu.
Let us go through this list quickly. The Color Coding feature of this software is used to differentiate the code and the content of an XML file. Just like any other good text editor, you can easily Highlight , Copy or Paste text within your XML file by making use of this software. It also allows you to work on multiple XML files simultaneously.
This software has a very friendly user interface which is fully customizable. This software has a layout which is known as the Pretty Print layout that makes your XML file to appear in a proper structure in order to make it look more organized. The Code Folding feature of this software enables you to hide multiple lines of code under one main headline in order to stop your screen from getting overloaded.
There is also a Built-in Links feature which is used to create links within XML files that point to some other section within the same file. This enhances the navigability of your XML files. If you want to group certain XML files according to the content that they contain or on any other basis, then you can easily make use of the Project Support feature of Code Browser and then keep all your desired files in one single folder.
The best thing about this XML editor is that it provides support for Custom Tools which can help you in taking certain customized actions such as launching another application through Code Browser. This feature makes this software highly usable. It has a very simple and friendly user interface which is perfect for experienced as well as for naive users. The Tree View feature of this software allows you to break down your XML file into classes, tags, and key values in order to make them look more readable.
The fonts and colors of your XML files are fully customizable. XML Notepad provides an infinite number of undo and redo actions which is a very helpful feature, especially for the beginners.
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