RE: [xml-dev] Semantic equivalence of xml documents

[Yves Langisch <lists@langisch.ch>]

Michael,

I mean for example that

<company>
	<person>Jim</person>
	<person>John</person>
</company>

is equivalent to

<company>
	<person>John</person>
	<person>Jim</person>
</company>

Yves

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 10:57 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
> Semantic equivalence?
> 
> You mean that 
> 
> <quote>XML is good</quote>
> 
> and
> 
> <quote>XML is not bad</quote>
> 
> come out as equivalent?
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/ 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yves Langisch [mailto:lists@langisch.ch] 
> > Sent: 26 September 2005 09:50
> > To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> > Subject: [xml-dev] Semantic equivalence of xml documents
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > We have defined a pretty large xml schema document. Based on this
> > schema, our customers build instance documents. What we would 
> > like to do
> > now is to compare two of them at a time to their semantic equality. Is
> > there any tool which can handle such requirements? As the input it
> > should take the schema docs and two instance documents. The only url I
> > found to this topic is
> > http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-diff/index.html . What
> > we also tried is XmlUnit but our documents seem to be too 
> > complex/nested
> > for the tool.
> > 
> > Any help is appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Yves
> > 
> > 
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