Version 0.9.6
X-Diff is a tool for detecting difference between two XML documents.
The core algorithm of X-Diff is described in the paper, "X-Diff: An Efficient Change Detection Algorithm for XML Documents", ICDE 2003.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~yuanwang/research/xdiff.pdf
Required: Xerces Java v1.4.0+.
On UNIX/LINUX:
$ getdependencies.sh
$ make
$ make package
$ run.sh
for a quick test
$ test.sh
On Windows:
> make.bat
$ java XDiff [-o|-g] [-p percent] xml_file1 xml_file2 result_file
Options:
The default mode is "-o -p 0.3".
-o The optimal mode, to get the diff result with minimum editing
distance.
-g The greedy mode, to get a diff result quickly, the result may not
be "optimal".
-p The maximum change percentage allowed. X-Diff will not try to match nodes that are much different from each other.
There is a C++ implementation
http://github.com/albfan/x-diff-c
Please report any bugs or send your comments to Yuan Wang at yuanwang@cs.wisc.edu