Re: [xml-dev] XML Diff

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

Fraser Goffin a écrit :
> Thanks Philippe (and indeed everyone else who has contributed some 
> really useful suggestions).
>  
> Its perhaps worth me saying that I need to analyse the documents as part 
> of a larger [running] process, so there won't be any human intervention 
> until the comparison is completed and the results are sent as part of a 
> message structure to a calling ESB service user. Can XUnit operate in 
> this mode ?

Yes : it is intended to run test suites that could be part of a batch task
RefleX itself is tested with XUnit, and it takes a while before ending 
when all the tests suites are run at once

To call an ESB service you'll have to perform some additional processes 
on the output ; it is not so hard to wrap some java code inside an 
active tag to invoke just after your test suite

>  
> The results I'm looking for are the additions, deletions and content 
> changes that have been applied to both instances.

the error type and the message will tell you what kind of differences 
occurred :
<error type="Attribute existence">
     Missing attribute country="france"
</error>

Although I described in the documentation the report structure, I omit 
to list the error types :) I'll fix it soon...


>  
> Regards
>  
> Fraser.
> 

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Cordialement,

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