RE: [xml-dev] defining xml diff/changes in xml : XUpdate etc

["Rakshan Murthy" <rakshanm@hotmail.com>]

>From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>

>Have you considered representing the diffs as an XSLT stylesheet that does
>the transformation from old to new?
>
>Michael Kay
>http://www.saxonica.com/

I quite like that idea. Thanks for mentioning it. It seems like a nice way 
to patch(i.e transform from old to new xml), and can also be a good 
presentation format (if further translated).

rax

>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rakshan Murthy [mailto:rakshanm@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: 05 April 2006 21:01
> > To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> > Subject: [xml-dev] defining xml diff/changes in xml : XUpdate etc
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Im looking for a standard for defining xml diffs/changes in
> > an xml format
> > (which may be used for patching later).
> > I've looked at Xupdate, and its quite close to what im looking for.
> > http://xmldb-org.sourceforge.net/xupdate/xupdate-wd.html
> >
> > however, im concerned if this is a "standard", or is widely popular.
> > What makes me queasy is that their domain site
> > http://www.xmldb.org, is no
> > longer theirs (or doesnt seem to be).
> >
> > If anyone has experience with xml diffs and can point me to a
> > relatively
> > stable standard, your help is appreciated.
> > The icing would be a OSS api that diffs xmls and generates
> > this standard.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > regards,
> > rax
> >
> >
> >
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