xmldiff 1.0.0a1

Tree 2 tree correction between xml documents. Extract differences between two xml files. It returns a set of primitives to apply on source tree to obtain the destination tree.

Author:

Sylvain Thenault - (c) 2001 Logilab S.A.

Web site:

http://www.logilab.org/project/xmldiff/

License:

LGPL https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html

Mailing list:

[e-mail] (http://lists.logilab.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-projects)

DESCRIPTION

Xmldiff 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, 1996

REQUIREMENTS

You need at least Python 2.3 to install and run xmldiff

DOWNLOAD

You can get the latest version of xmldiff at http://www.logilab.org/project/xmldiff/

INSTALL

To install the tarball distribution do:

python setup.py install

or do:

python setup.py help

to display available options.

Or add the xmldiff directory to your PYTHONPATH.

USAGE

Read the HELP.txt file.

CREDITS

The main developer is Sylvain Thenault <[e-mail]> with Nicolas Chauvat <[e-mail]> as coordinator.

CHANGES

1.0.0a1 (2018-04-10)

• Bug: Fix a off-by-one issue with insert-after action.

• Bug: Do not remove newlines from text while parsing the XML.

• Bug: Do not rename children on text node updates.

• Bug: Text moves were not recorded as part of the fmes edit script.

• Remove only partially implemented xmlrev script.

• Removed support for xupdate, which never became a standard.

• Removed deprecated ezs optional algorithm.

• Removed support for Debian and RedHat packaging.

• Removed Windows support

• LOTS of package cleanup (setup.py, MANIFEST, proper console script, etc)

• tests moved to py.test and cleaned, added tox, travis, coverage support

0.6.10 (2010-08-27)

• apply Daiki Ueno patch: fails when comparing minimal trees on i386

0.6.9 (2009-04-02)

• Fixed xmldiff-xmlrev compilation error

0.6.8 (2006-06-15)

• Fixed 64bit cleanness issues

0.6.7 (2005-05-04)

• WARNING: xmldiff is no longer a logilab subpackage. Users may have to manually remove the old logilab/xmldiff directory.

• fixed debian bug #275750, also reported by Christopher R Newman on the xml-projects mailing list

• fixed –profile option, wrap function from maplookup when profiling so that they appear in the profile information

• fixed setup.py to ignore the xmlrev shell script under windows platforms

• small improvements (remove recursion in object.py, minor enhancement in mydifflib.py, rewrite of lcs4 in C)

0.6.6 (2004-12-23)

• Applied patch by Bastian Kleineidam <[e-mail]> which

  • corrects the typo in ML_DIR

  • fixes the TMPFILE_XSLT/TMPFILE_XSL typo

  • makes sure the files are XML or SGML files, else prints an error

  • adds various missing quotes around filenames which could have spaces or begin with a hyphen

  • fixes typos in the usage() function

  Thanks a lot, Bastian.

• Fixed some problems in the xmlrev.xslt stylesheet

• Fixed problems in xmlrev caused by the exit status of xmldiff when successful

• Added a man page for xmldiff and xmlrev

0.6.5 (2004-09-02)

• xmlrev bugfixes

• Fixed packaging problems (missing xsl stylesheets and MANIFEST file)

0.6.4 (2003-10-02)

• fix recursive mode

• rewrite regression test, add test for the recursive mode

• add –help option to xlmrev

• packaging fixes

• turn API.txt and HELP.txt to correct ReST

0.6.3 (2002-11-06)

• fix wrong xpath for attributes

• fix bug with temporary duplicate attribute node

• fix for xupdate

• fix ext_pes option bug

• update changelog to new format

0.6.2: (2002-09-23)

• return number of differences on command line

• reintroduce misc.list_print which caused recursive mode to fail

• use psyco if available (http://psyco.sf.net)

• little changes in C extension

0.6.1 (2002-08-29)

• fix packaging problems

0.6.0 (2002-08-23)

• change of the internal representation

• remove support for the EZS algorithm (no more maintened for the moment)

• add command line options to parse html and to control entities inclusion and output encoding

• fixing coalescing text nodes bug

• many other bugs fixes

• great speed improvement

0.5.3 (2002-01-31)

• add __init__.py in “logilab” directory

0.5.2 (2001-10-29)

• bug fixes in xupdate formatting and in the dom interface.

0.5.1 (2001-09-07)

• Fast Match / Edit Scritp algorithm, now fully usable

• fixes Unicode problem

0.2.1 (2001-08-10)

• bug fixes, optimizations for ezs algorithm

0.1.1 (2001-08-04)

• original revision