Exclude specific tag with Diff Directories

[peterhadermann]

Dear all,

We like to use the "Diff Directories" application to compare XML files.

We like to always ignore the XML tag: <topic id="xxx" xml:lang="en">
This tag is always different.

Is there a solution to exclude this tag with the "Diff Directories" application ?
We can do a search/replace for all xml files but this is a rather complex solution if we must do it every time.

Example: http://www.blonde.eu/public/topic_exclude.png
Settings: http://www.blonde.eu/public/diff_settings.png

Thanks for your suggestions.

[tavy]

Hello,

In oXygen XML Editor 18.0 (that will be released probably at the end of this moth) we added support to ignore nodes by XPath but only for the file comparison ("Diff Files"). We have an issue on our issue tracker to implement this also for "Diff Directories". But this is scheduled for a future oXygen version.

Best Regards,
Octavian

[tavy]

Hello,

In oXygen XML Editor 18 we added support in Diff Files tool to ignore nodes using an XPath expression.
An XPath panel was added on the toolbar of the File Comparison tool and in the Compare view in the Syncro SVN Client. You can enter an XPath 2.0 expression to ignore certain nodes when comparing using the XML Fast or XML Accurate algorithms.

Watch this video demonstration to find out more more about "XML Three Way Diff" in Oxygen XML Editor 18:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wLmNZq ... e=youtu.be

For more details see the "Compare Files" section from our use manual:
http://oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/18.0/ ... rison.html

Best Regards,
Octavian

[teo]

The recently released version 27 of the Oxygen suite comes with news regarding the feature(s) requested on this thread.

Ignore Nodes by XPath option supported in directory comparisons
The Ignore Nodes by XPath option, and the XPath expression provided for this purpose, in the File Comparison preferences page are now taken into account when comparing directories by invoking the tool.
The option is accessible via the Directory Compare tool.

XPath expressions to exclude nodes supported in Compare Directories script
A previous limitation was solved for the Compare Directories command-line script making it now possible to use the -enx XPathExprToExcludeNodes argument.
It allows you to specify an XPath expression that will exclude certain nodes from the comparison.
This option can now be used without any limitation, regardless of the format chosen for the comparison report.

Regards,
Teo