X-Diff	Version 0.9.6

What is it?
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X-Diff is a tool for detecting difference between two XML documents.


Documentation
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The core algorithm of X-Diff is described in the paper, "X-Diff: An
Efficient Change Detection Algorithm for XML Documents", ICDE 2003.
(http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~yuanwang/research/xdiff.pdf).


Installation
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-- Java version:

Required: Xerces Java v1.4.0+.

On UNIX/LINUX,

	tar zxf xdiff-j-0.9.6.tar.gz
	cd X-Diff
	make

On Windows,

	unzip xdiff-j-0.9.6.zip
	cd X-Diff
	make.bat

-- C++ version

Required: Xerces C++ v1.4.0, g++ v2.9.*

	tar zxf xdiff-j-0.9.6.tar.gz
	cd X-Diff
	make


Running X-Diff
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java XDiff [-o|-g] [-p percent] xml_file1 xml_file2 result_file

or,

xdiff [-o|-g] [-p percent] xml_file1 xml_file2 result_file

Options:

	The default mode is "-o -p 0.3".
	
  -o	The optimal mode, to get the diff result with minimum editing
  	distance.
	
  -g	The greedy mode, to get a diff result quickly, the result may not
  	be "optimal".
	
  -p	The maximum change percentage allowed. X-Diff will not try to match
  	nodes that are much different from each other.


Bug Reporting
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Please report any bugs or send your comments to Yuan Wang at
[email protected]


Copyright Information
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X-Diff is an open source product, which open source license permits you to
use X-Diff at no charge under the condition that if you use the software in
an application you redistribute, the complete source code for your application
must be available and freely redistributable under reasonable conditions.
If you do not want to release the source code for your application, you may
purchase a license from me.



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	Yuan Wang. All rights reserved.

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