![]() Refer to List of Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) versions for detailed information, including version numbers for each release. MSXML is also updated when you install software updates through various Microsoft products. MSXML Releasesĭifferent versions of MSXML are included within Microsoft products such as Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft SQL Server. Later sections describe different MSXML versions. Different versions of MSXML support slightly different sets of functionality. Each version of MSXML exposes its own set of CLSIDs and ProgIDs. Like all COM components, MSXML objects are programmatically instantiated by CLSID or ProgID. Developers can program against MSXML objects from C++ or from scripting languages such as JScript and VBScript. ![]() MSXML APIs are exposed programmatically as Component Object Model (COM) objects. MSXML provides a set of services that allow customers who use JScript, VBScript and Microsoft Visual Studio (2005 and later versions) to build high-performance XML based applications that provide a high level of interoperability with other applications that adhere to the XML 1.0 standard. The article also briefly summarizes features that MSXML provides, have been improved or deprecated in past and current releases. If somebody has a suggestion, it’d be very welcome.This article describes the existing releases of MSXML technologies. The probably “better” choice for this would be C# so that I could use it directly on the computer I’m generating the file on, but then I’d like something usable on Linux too, so I would probably be forced to look into Mono for that… Standard C could be an option but would probably be a bit overcomplex. I’m not good enough with Java to use that. I could use Ruby but I’m afraid of the memory usage. Especially since I wouldn’t have time to polish it and I’m tired of starting projects I never complete in a decent way.Īnd I’m not sure which language I should use either. Is it this difficult to find a tool doing what I need here? I suppose I could spend some time writing my own tool, either for just this particular case or generic, but I’m not really sure I want to start this yet. Too bad the thing, left 20 minutes working on the two files, was still crunching numbers with 80% cpu, and not outputting a single line of difference. The only option that seemed at least near what I needed was xmldiff, which is in portage already. Unfortunately I’ve found stuff that was written originally under GCC 2.95, then ported to GCC 3, and obviously fails with GCC 4, like XyDiff, which also had a pretty idiotic build system I’ve found Java code written for Java 1.4 and not working on 1.6 (with no source available of course) – many thanks for the “Write once run everywhere” idea – and much more sophisticated stuff (like Nokia’s xmlpatch which is probably something I could use for other stuff, but not for this). Time to Google around, and I’ve found a few tools that seemed to be what I needed. The “fast” algorithm instead just gave me a line by line diff with XML syntax highlight. It excepted out of memory, suggesting me to increase its limit. The way it compares XML files have multiple algorithms, I tried first the “XML accurate” one as that seemed the most appropriate, I needed an accurate comparison indeed. ![]() Then I was suggested to try another proprietary commercial tool called oxygen. Update : since it’s now 2020, Microsoft actually did release the sources! You can find XmlNotepad on GitHub and it seems to be actively maintained. Quite a simple bug to fix if you had the sources around, but this is Microsoft. Unfortunately there is a bug, a huge one: whenever an attribute of a variable changes, instead of showing me the attribute name it outputs the element’s name. Actually, that was in theory exactly what I needed. The first option was to use Microsoft’s XML Notepad (which I’m using already since I’m working under Windows and I didn’t want to look for KXML Editor for Windows), and its Compare option. I though that it was quite a common task working with XML files actually, so after asking a bit around for suggestions, I just ran a search to find a software that would do what I need. I have two XML files, both big around 1.5MiB I have to find what differs between them, one is the original, the other is the one generated by the software I’m writing.Ī simple diff run between the two can’t work for me because it shows a HUGE lot of information I don’t care about, as it tells me whenever a whole line differs, while I need to know which attributes in these very long lines change. Badly designed XML files, but that’s not the main issue here, although it does make the task a bit more complex than it would be. As I wrote in a previous entry ( XML misuses), my current job entails working with XML files.
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