Compare two XML documents

[Martin Zugec]

Hi there,

I have software where one of backends is subversion repository.
Because there is (as far as I know) no native .NET class to handle
SVN, I created my own that is only parsing output from svn.exe...

Big benefit of using svn.exe is that by specifying --xml you can get
output in XML. However there comes my problem - I would like to be
able to detect if two XML are same and if not, which changes were done
(otherwise I would need to always parse approx 400 entries and this is
not best approach).

I am only interested in FLAT structure - that means if new folders
were added, removed or their revision was changed.

Anyone have any experiences with comparing and parsing XML documents
to detect changes???

Thanks for any help

 

[Martin Honnen]

Anyone have any experiences with comparing and parsing XML documents
to detect changes???

I don't know about subversion but to compare XML documents there is the
"XML Diff and Patch tool":
<URL:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/xml/bb190622.aspx>

 

[Martin Zugec]

Thanks Martin, that is exactly what I was looking for (even samples
are included)