A library and command line utility for diffing xml
xmldiff is a library and a command-line utility for making diffs out of XML. This may seem like something that doesn’t need a dedicated utility, but change detection in hierarchical data is very different from change detection in flat data. XML type formats are also not only used for computer readable data, it is also often used as a format for hierarchical data that can be rendered into human readable formats. A traditional diff on such a format would tell you line by line the differences, but this would not be be readable by a human. xmldiff provides tools to make human readable diffs in those situations.
xmldiff is a library and a command-line utility for making diffs out of XML. This may seem like something that doesn’t need a dedicated utility, but change detection in hierarchical data is very different from change detection in flat data. XML type formats are also not only used for computer readable data, it is also often used as a format for hierarchical data that can be rendered into human readable formats. A traditional diff on such a format would tell you line by line the differences, but this would not be be readable by a human. xmldiff provides tools to make human readable diffs in those situations.
To install py311-xmldiff, run the following command in macOS terminal (Applications->Utilities->Terminal)
sudo port install py311-xmldiff
To see what files were installed by py311-xmldiff, run:
port contents py311-xmldiff
To later upgrade py311-xmldiff, run:
sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade py311-xmldiff
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