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

[Mukul Gandhi <mukul_gandhi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you David.. I understood nearly everything..

--- David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But for some reason
> you want to generate a special purpose (and _very_
> _very_ large) string
> representation of the XML file, rather than just use
> the normal text
> markup representation.

I "don't want to" generate such a string! It was "the
idea I had in mind" for comparing XML documents. And
my idea resulted in writing the stylesheet I posted. I
wanted to validate my idea with XSL-List members, and
I learnt a lot in the process. My idea is surely not
good as you have explained..

I am thinking, whether "a XML comparison program" is
really useful for real needs? I don't normally see
need for comparing XML documents..

I believe, the things that can be done with XML can 
roughly fall in these categories:

- Read XML

- Write XML

- Modify XML (or transform it)

- Transmit XML between different applications/people

- Validate XML with a DTD/Schema

I don't see that comparing XML documents can be a
meaningful activity... Though it may be.. But I am not
aware of any such requirements..

Regards,
Mukul

> David
> 
>
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