[Robert Varga]

Hi All,

Is there any plans for making a decent XML compare tool which would be used by the file comparison and file version comparison and merge features of Eclipse?

The XML compare example in Eclipse is a good starting place, but the source-level part of it is the same as the stock file compare, which is not really usable for XML. It is not capable of detecting added XML elements if the end lines of the added element are the same as the end lines of the element preceding the insertion point.

Something that prefers entire element matching to be maintained would be good.
Also element ids could be taken into account, and intelligently noticing if elements are only reordered.

Best regards,

Robert

[Loyal Water]

I’m not sure if there are any plans of adding any XML compare tool in the near future. Thank you for bringing this up though. I’ll note your request down.

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