Main function

Show what has been changed.

Show what has been changed.

Inserting remarks in XMLmind XML Editor - Online Help in a revision allows to specify by whom, when and why.

Show how changes have been made, by whom, when and possibly why.

How does it work?

Compare two arbitrary XML files.

Compare two revisions of the same initial document (in which the comparison of revisions has been enabled in XMLmind XML Editor - Online Help).

Record insertions and deletions in the revised document, typically in the form of proprietary processing-instructions.

Needs to be activated for a given document

No.

Yes.

Yes.

Performance penalty when loading and saving the document

No.

Not significant.

Possibly yes, when the number of changes becomes large.

Performance penalty when editing the document

No.

No.

Possibly yes, when the number of changes becomes large.

Increases the size of the revised document

No.

Yes. The increase in size depends on the number of elements contained in the document. See Section 2, “Elements are given serial numbers”.

Yes. The increase in size depends on the number of changes made to the document.

Detects all changes

Highly depends on the quality of the underlying algorithm. Yes, for some algorithms.

Yes.

No, cannot handle attributes.

Allows to accept or reject one or more changes

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Validity of the document after accepting or rejecting one or more changes

Well-formed, may be valid.

Well-formed. In practice, generally valid.

Valid.