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>From: "Andrew S. Townley" <andrew.townley@bearingpoint.com>
>To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
>CC: 'Rakshan Murthy' <rakshanm@hotmail.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>Subject: RE: [xml-dev] defining xml diff/changes in xml : XUpdate etc
>Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:38:14 +0100
>
>
>You may have also seen this (courtesy of Sam Ruby's blog) last week. I
>only saw it on Friday, but it seems to at least be active and doing
>something similar. Maybe you can work with Andy Roberts on it to try
>and get the features you need.
>
>http://andyroberts007.blogspot.com/2006/04/delta-web_03.html
>
>ast
Thanks,
I found this wiki, and they seem to be looking for the same thing as I
http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Projects/CJANXmlDiff
They point towards Diffxml and its output DUL(Delta Update Language) which I
was also considering as an alternative.
I also found that DUL was submitted as a draft by its author to IETF
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mouat-xml-patch-00.txt
rax
>
>On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:37, Michael Kay wrote:
> > I'm not sure you had a response to this.
> >
> > XUpdate is pretty dormant. It certainly can't be described as a standard
>in
> > any sense of the word, though it might still do what you want.
> >
> > XQuery update extensions are on the way, but not there yet. And it's not
>an
> > XML format, unfortunately.
> >
> > Have you considered representing the diffs as an XSLT stylesheet that
>does
> > the transformation from old to new?
> >
> > Michael Kay
> > http://www.saxonica.com/
> >
> > > -----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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