File comparator for .xml

[TÜV]

F3 in Altap Salamander 2.53 beta 1 shows the content of .xml-files in a good way (colored, using the Internet Explorer).

Alt-F3 can show the file-content with Wrap (Ctrl+W).

But the Plugin "File Comparator" shows the content of .xml-files only with line 1 (short header) and a very long line 2.

Could you improve this by adding the option Wrap (Ctrl+W) also in the File Comparator?

Could you add ">" as selectable under "Line Ends" in the options of the File Comparator (and of the Internal Viewer)?

[therube]

Can you post sample files where this occurs?
(Thinking there are enough variances between "xml" that what one may see, another may not.)

Wrap could be beneficial.

Horizontal (Ctrl+H) may help in some instances.

[TÜV]

I got "The extension xml is not allowed." when trying to upload an .xml-file. So I zipped it.

[TÜV]

you may need the second file to compare

[therube]

The "1 (short header) and a very long line 2" threw me initially.

Perhaps a layout like that is not typical?

Attached are two versions of "branding.xml" from Office 2007.

The majority of the file "works" as expected, but then there are a few ~170K character lines too (at the end of the file, & a couple shorter lines at the top).

(Comparator likely will never finish so ESC after a few seconds, choosing to run it in with Detailed Differences off.)

In this case treating ">" as end EOL character could help.

Various utilities (editors, Vim, or UNIX-like utils, sed or whatever) & you could "manually" reformat the file before comparing.

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%s/>/&\r/g

& your document.xml would end up like document.revised.xml.

[TÜV]

Comparing your 2 files with "Show only Differences" shows also lines with no differences.

Switching to "Horizontal View" does not refresh the whole display (leftovers of linenumbers).

Also other xml-files have no linefeeds (like your files have), see the attachment meta-xml.zip.

[TÜV]

With the 2 German language xml-files in the attached zip-file (from 2 old versions of PDF-XChange Viewer) the File Comparator plugin works fine, although there are no linefeeds in it.

But the internal file viewer of Salamander 2.53 beta 1 shows wrong German signs (ÄÖÜäöüß) and the Internet Explorer (with F3) has a problem to show the end of the older file version (42.7).

[therube]

although there are no linefeeds in it

Sure there are, $0a$ = LF.

[TÜV]

You are right. I looked at it with F4 of Salamander and there were no linefeeds to be seen.

[Jan Patera]

Comparing your 2 files with "Show only Differences" shows also lines with no differences.
Switching to "Horizontal View" does not refresh the whole display (leftovers of linenumbers).

This has been fixed for the next version of Salamander (AS 2.53b2/2.53).