xmldiffs

Compare XML files semantically, ignoring element and attribute order.

Usage: xmldiffs [OPTION] FILE1 FILE2

How does it work?

xmldiffs first parses each XML file and spits them out sorted by element (tag) name and attributes. The result is then passed to diff for a semantic XML comparison.

Command line options

• -u, --unified - produce unified diff. This is the default mode.
• -c, --context - produce context diff.
• -n, --ndiff - produce Differ-style delta.
• -t, --html - produce HTML page showing line by line differences.
• -d, --diff - run the diff program to compare normalized texts. Any options not described here are added to the diff command line.
• -l, --lines - Number of the context lines for unified, context, and html diffs. For unified and context diffs, the value defaults to 3. For html diff, the value defaults to None, which produces full output lines. Pass an integer to produce context lines.
• -o, --output - Name of the output file. Default value is minus sign, which prints the diff to the stdout.
• -x, --xml - instead of comparing two xml files, write sorted contents of FILE1 to FILE2. In this mode the --output option is ignored.