Re: [xsl] Testing 2 XML documents for equality - a solution

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In general, the notion of "equality" for XML documents is highly 
application dependent. Even two documents that are byte-per-byte the 
same are not always equal for all purposes. On the flip side, there are 
almost always multiple ways to represent the same content such that many 
(in fact, infinitely many) different documents would be considered to be 
the same by any given XML aware process. However, different processes 
have different definitions of "the same." Before you can consider 
whether or not it's possible to write a stylesheet that tests two 
documents for equality it's essential to define exactly what you mean by 
equal.


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