xmldiff 1.1.1

Installation

To install the latest release:

pip install xmldiff

To install the development version:

git clone https://github.com/Shoobx/xmldiff.git
cd xmldiff
virtualenv ./.venv
./.venv/bin/python setup.py install

Then to compare two given XML files:

./.venv/bin/xmldiff 1.xml 2.xml

Running tests

To run the test suite for all python versions:

tox

1.1.1 (2018-06-20)

• When moving attributes the secondary rename action xpath was ‘//LogilabXmldiffTmpAttr<attrib>’ which is a tag specification. Changed this to ‘//@LogilabXmldiffTmpAttr<attrib>’, so an attribute is specified.

1.1.0 (2018-06-15)

• When using namespaces, the returned xpaths are now in the form ns_prefix:tag instead of the earlier {ns_uri}tag, which isn’t correct xpaths.

1.0.0 (2018-04-13)

• pep8 cleanup, added flake8 checking to tox

1.0.0a6 (2018-04-12)

• Removed encoding, because python does unicode just fine

• Switched on namespace handling for XML input

1.0.0a5 (2018-04-11)

• Brownbag release to make up for bad previous ones.

1.0.0a2 (2018-04-11)

• Temporary disabling of encoding text (hopefully permanent).

• Reverted bug fix: Do not remove newlines from text while parsing the XML.

1.0.0a1 (2018-04-10)

• Bug: Fix a off-by-one issue with insert-after action.

• Bug: Do not rename children on text node updates.

• Bug: Text moves were not recorded as part of the fmes edit script.

• Remove only partially implemented xmlrev script.

• Removed support for xupdate, which never became a standard.

• Removed deprecated ezs optional algorithm.

• Removed support for Debian and RedHat packaging.

• Removed Windows support

• LOTS of package cleanup (setup.py, MANIFEST, proper console script, etc)

• tests moved to py.test and cleaned, added tox, travis, coverage support

0.6.10 (2010-08-27)

• apply Daiki Ueno patch: fails when comparing minimal trees on i386

0.6.9 (2009-04-02)

• Fixed xmldiff-xmlrev compilation error

0.6.8 (2006-06-15)

• Fixed 64bit cleanness issues

0.6.7 (2005-05-04)

• WARNING: xmldiff is no longer a logilab subpackage. Users may have to manually remove the old logilab/xmldiff directory.

• fixed debian bug #275750, also reported by Christopher R Newman on the xml-projects mailing list

• fixed –profile option, wrap function from maplookup when profiling so that they appear in the profile information

• fixed setup.py to ignore the xmlrev shell script under windows platforms

• small improvements (remove recursion in object.py, minor enhancement in mydifflib.py, rewrite of lcs4 in C)

0.6.6 (2004-12-23)

• Applied patch by Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org> which

  • corrects the typo in ML_DIR

  • fixes the TMPFILE_XSLT/TMPFILE_XSL typo

  • makes sure the files are XML or SGML files, else prints an error

  • adds various missing quotes around filenames which could have spaces or begin with a hyphen

  • fixes typos in the usage() function

  Thanks a lot, Bastian.

• Fixed some problems in the xmlrev.xslt stylesheet

• Fixed problems in xmlrev caused by the exit status of xmldiff when successful

• Added a man page for xmldiff and xmlrev

0.6.5 (2004-09-02)

• xmlrev bugfixes

• Fixed packaging problems (missing xsl stylesheets and MANIFEST file)

0.6.4 (2003-10-02)

• fix recursive mode

• rewrite regression test, add test for the recursive mode

• add –help option to xlmrev

• packaging fixes

• turn API.txt and HELP.txt to correct ReST

0.6.3 (2002-11-06)

• fix wrong xpath for attributes

• fix bug with temporary duplicate attribute node

• fix for xupdate

• fix ext_pes option bug

• update changelog to new format

0.6.2 (2002-09-23)

• return number of differences on command line

• reintroduce misc.list_print which caused recursive mode to fail

• use psyco if available (http://psyco.sf.net)

• little changes in C extension

0.6.1 (2002-08-29)

• fix packaging problems

0.6.0 (2002-08-23)

• change of the internal representation

• remove support for the EZS algorithm (no more maintened for the moment)

• add command line options to parse html and to control entities inclusion and output encoding

• fixing coalescing text nodes bug

• many other bugs fixes

• great speed improvement

0.5.3 (2002-01-31)

• add __init__.py in “logilab” directory

0.5.2 (2001-10-29)

• bug fixes in xupdate formatting and in the dom interface.

0.5.1 (2001-09-07)

• Fast Match / Edit Scritp algorithm, now fully usable

• fixes Unicode problem

0.2.1 (2001-08-10)

• bug fixes, optimizations for ezs algorithm

0.1.1 (2001-08-04)

• original revision