Re: [xml-dev] Java xml canonicalizer for comparing xml fragments

[Philippe Poulard <Philippe.Poulard@sophia.inria.fr>]

Andrew Welch wrote:
> Is there a free Java xml canonicalizer out there to allow the
> comparing of xml fragments?
> 
> If not, how does everyone compare xml fragments or files for equality?
> 
> thanks
> andrew
> 

hi,

you can try XUnit for that purpose ; instead of comparing the canonical 
form of your documents, it will compare 2 DOM documents or 2 nodes

when it find some differences, it reports what differs and where

it is very basic but helpful if you have to compare thousands of documents

XUnit is an application available with RefleX
http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr/xunit.html

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