Re: an "htmldiff" for diffing HTML files?

[robertb@xxxxxxxxx (robert)]

 > From: Nathan Neulinger <nneul@xxxxxxxxx>
 > Date: Tue  May 28,  7:13pm
 >
 > >  > 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?
 > 
 > Right.
 > 
 > The biggest problem with doing this type of diff is that there is no way of
 > highlighting changes in a consistent manner, since you don't know how the
 > html will be formatted. when viewed.
 > 
 > You basically need something that can be inserted as a tag, i.e.
 > 
 >         this is followed by some <CHANGEBAR>new text</CHANGEBAR>
 > 
 > Then let the browser do the work.
 > 
 > The only tag I know of that you could do this with that would be
 > non-invasive would be the color change stuff with netscape.

OK.  (I wish I could find a version of wdiff that works...)

Thanks, anyway.

 > -- Nathan
 > 
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