Re: [xsl] Friday challenge: XSLT thats creates XPaths for meaningfully equivalent comparisons of XML files

["Mukul Gandhi" <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx>]

I attempted something similar (1-2 yrs back I guess).

You can read about my idea at,
http://gandhimukul.tripod.com/xslt/misc.html (item 3).

On 4/13/07, Florent Georges <darkman_spam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andrew Welch wrote:
>
>  Hi
>
> > <checkXML>
> >    <xml src="file:/C:/test.xml">
> >       <check>/root[1]/foo[1]/text[1] = 'foo'</check>
> >       <check>/root[1]/foo[1]/@fooatt = 'att'</check>
> >       <check>/root[1]/bar[1]/text[1] = 'bar'</check>
> >       <check>/root[1]/bar[2]/text[1] = 'baz'</check>
> >    </xml>
> > </checkXML>
>
>  IMHO, the first step is to define what 'to be meaningfully
> equivalent' means for two XML documents.  Do the whitespace text nodes
> count?  Do all attributes count (think for example about generated
> IDs)?  Do the order of the elements always count?
>
>  IMHO all those questions cannot be answered without the context of a
> specific document type.
>
>  Regards,
>
> --drkm


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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi