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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files'
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Cameron Patrick |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files' |
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Wed, 6 Apr 2005 01:46:49 +0800 |
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Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > I believe there is some kind of xml-diff, that compares the trees, not
> > the text ;-). One such is built into openoffice...
>
> Yes, but there's no corresponding patch tool, nor can there be (any
> more than there can for xdelta), since XML is semantically null and
> syntactically useless.
There is indeed a patch tool. Take a peek at
http://tdm.berlios.de/3dm/doc/index.html
and the corresponding research paper
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/lindholm01way.html
You're kind of right though - the patch tool described in that paper
does not handle inexact patching well. However, it does describe a
3-way merge algorithm, which it claims to be useful for revision
control and file synchronisation. It might be feasible to adapt that
algorithm into a more sane patch format which _does_ support inexact
patching.
Microsoft also has an XML diff tool, but it's mostly uninteresting as
it doesn't appear to support either inexact patching or 3-way merges.
There also seems to be no description of the algorithm or any
implementation available other than an MS Windows binary. Bleh.
Cameron
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Robert Widhopf-Fenk, 2005/04/04
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Jan Hudec, 2005/04/06
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Jan Hudec, 2005/04/06
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