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compare 2 xml files using xslt

kiran kumar

Hello experts,
i am kinda new to xslt and stuff, i wanted to know how to compare two xml files using xslt

this is my file1.xml

kiran
1231
chennai

kumar
1232
chennai

this is my file2.xml

1231
1232
1233

can i use like this

is this the correct approach
i am new to this xslt stuff
any help is very much appreciated
thank you

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Stephen Flynn8y ago
Comparing two xslt files is surprisingly a much more difficult task than that. I recently wrote this script using microsoft xslt 1.0.

https://github.com/sflynn1812/xslt-diff-turbo

It calculates differences in two xml file (the input.xml not in b.xml), however you could change it to be used for any two xml nodes.
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Suthish Nair15y ago

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302294.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4590214/comparing-two-xml-files-generating-a-third-with-xmldiff-in-c
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