All files from MSDN 'The XML Diff and Patch GUI Tool' source code downloaded from XMLDiffPatchGUI This is 'The XML Diff and Patch GUI Tool' that was published on MSDN. Only source code was ever published so this repo is here to recify that with a binary and installer.

This article shows how to use the XmlDiff class to compare two XML files and show these differences as an HTML document in a.NET Framework 1.1 application. Summary: Explains how to use the XML Diff and Patch tool, which compares two XML files and produces an XML output of the differences, by utilizing a typical scenario that readers can apply to their own applications.

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When learning about Open XML or developing Open XML solutions, it's very common to find yourself wondering 'what's the difference between these two documents?' For example, you may see something in a document that you'd like to recreate programmatically, so you want to know what markup would be required. Or perhaps you've modified a document manually (using Word, say) and you want to know what markup changes were caused by your edits. In those situations, a diff utility can save a lot of time. Asian Cambodian Svay001. I'll cover two good options for comparing Open XML documents below: Eric White's free command-line tool, which comes with source code and can be useful in automated workflows, and Altova's commercial GUI tool, which offers a variety of interactive capabilities for analyzing the differences between Open XML documents.

Eric White's OpenXmlDiff Eric White recently had a need for an Open XML diff utility, and he decided to create a tool from scratch. The result was, a simple and straightforward command-line tool that generates a report of all the differences between two Open XML documents. The diff report is written to console output, so you can easily redirect it to a text file or another program. Eric has put together a that provides a concise 3-minute overview of how to download and use OpenXmlDiff. OpenXmlDiff uses the XML Diff and Patch Utility (a on MSDN) to analyze the differences between the same XML part within two different Open XML documents. That tool identifies the specific changes that would be need to transform one XML document (i. Hyphenation Package Microsoft. e., OPC part) into another, and OpenXmlDiff handles the details of the OPC package and generates a well-organized output report that summarizes differences at the package level and then shows the specific details for parts that differ. OpenXmlDiff is a good option if you want to study source code or extend a tool on your own, and it's also free.

For those who want more of a slick GUI tool for comparing Open XML documents, there's another good option. Altova's DiffDog I had the pleasure of meeting Alexander Falk in person at TechEd two weeks ago, and we had lunch and talked about our mutual interests including XML standards, Open XML tools, and — most of all —. Ironically, we got so busy talking about photography that I forgot to take a picture of Alex, but I did snap a couple of photos of their booth, where a variety of Altova employees (including Tara and Erin, pictured) were on hand to answer questions and do demos. Altova's suite of XML tools has been evolving rapidly, and one of the areas where they've added quite a bit of functionality lately is Open XML support.

For example, Alex about how to use Altova's to auto-generate C# code that creates an Open XML spreadsheet, and their and products also provide built-in support for the Open XML formats. Another Altova tool that can be very useful to Open XML developers is, a full-featured general-purpose diff/merge utility that supports any type of text file and also offers XML-aware differencing and support for Open XML documents (i.e., OPC packages) and ZIP files. DiffDog's 'XML-aware' approach means that it's smart about how to organize differences in XML documents for various visualizations (text view, grid view), and it also provides options for how to handle whitespace, CDATA, ordering of attributes (semantically meaningless, but sometimes important to a developer) and many other XML-specific details. And with full support for parts in ZIP packages, you can easily use DiffDog on Open XML documents. Download the and check it out. Eric White’s tool will be very handy if you have programmatically created a broken document, and would like to see how Word fixed it.