Make Vault XML aware

Cynicszm · Post by **Cynicszm** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:23 am

We are currently using the 3.5 version of Vault. The majority of our current work is with XML files.

I've checked the inbuilt diff / merge and it doesn't recognise XML formatted files - and the latest version of DiffMerge 3.0 (used in Vault 4.0) doesn't contain a ruleset for XML.

Questions:
1. Are there any plans to release an XML ruleset for DiffMerge?
2. Any suggestions for a reliable Diff / merge tool with XML in the meantime?

Thanks,
John

Beth · Post by **Beth** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:44 pm

Your XML file should be treated in the same manner as a text file, unless you have it set to be some sort of unicode file. Can you check the encoding you have for that file?

Cynicszm · Post by **Cynicszm** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:53 am

When working with XML files you can't simply treat them as text files - for example:

The order of XML attributes is irrelevant because XML processors do not consider the sequence that attributes appear in for a particular element.A utility without XML-aware capabilities will report every change in attribute ordering.

There are many other situations that arise during XML development that require an XML-aware differencing / merging utility.

Beth · Post by **Beth** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:01 pm

Got it. I'll take a feature request and get that forwarded onto the developer. Thanks for the feedback.