Re: an "htmldiff" for diffing HTML files?

[robertb@xxxxxxxxx (robert)]

 > From: nneul@xxxxxxxxx (Nathan Neulinger)
 > Date: Mon  May 27,  3:50pm
 >
 > (A copy of this message has also been posted to the following newsgroups:
 > comp.infosystems.www.misc, comp.lang.perl)
 > 
 > >The URL minder and things like it are great.  But, when I get a
 > >notification of a changed page, I don't know what's changed.  Does anyone
 > >have a diff which works on HTML documents and produces another HTML
 > >document which can highlight the differences?
 > 
 > Are you looking for a HTML document that indicates the changes in the html
 > of the two files, and shows the changed files in a parsed form?

Correct -- I'd like to know when anchors change, image names change, etc.

I thought I might be able to use wdiff, but I couldn't find a version that
worked.  And spiff was totally inadequate.

 > It would be relatively straightforward to write a script that generated an
 > HTML file indicating the changes in plain-text (without the changed HTML
 > being parsed).

Right, that's not what I want.  However, showing the individual insertion and
deletion of phrases and SGML controls would be adequate.

 > Another possibility would be to strip all 'color' tags from the source
 > documents, and indicate in red or something any changes. That should be
 > relatively easy to do.

You mean, after doing the plain-text diff?

 > -- Nathan
 > 
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