> It's a common question but quite a difficult thing to do. Unless you are 
> an extremely proficient XSLT programmer I'd try searching for an already 
> written one.
> (I haven't come across one myself but have seen a number of people that 
> "were going to write one"...

The difficulty is not that this is a difficut problem to solve, but because 
it is difficult to formulate precisely.

Remember how many times the deep-equal() function was re-defined and even 
deleted from the F & O working drafts.

So the "normative" answer might be to use the XPath 2.0 function 
deep-equal().

Certainly, at the moment of writing this there is no release Microsoft 
implementation of XPath 2.0 and of the F & O (because the question is being 
asked in a Microsoft newsgroup).


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev


"Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@n...> wrote in message 
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> "Venu" <venuc@h...> wrote in message 
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to know, how to compare two xml files
>>
>> for differences and output the difference result in a third xml using
>>
>> xsl.
>>
>> Just wondering, whether there is a generic way of doing it ?
>>
>> regards
>>
>>
>> Venu
>>
> It's a common question but quite a difficult thing to do. Unless you are 
> an extremely proficient XSLT programmer I'd try searching for an already 
> written one.
> (I haven't come across one myself but have seen a number of people that 
> "were going to write one"...
>
>
> -- 
>
> Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
>
> http://joe.fawcett.name
>
>