rfc-xmldiff 0.5.8.1

Create an HTML difference display from two XML input files.

Create a difference on two RFC XML files

This program takes two XML files containing SVG or RFC documents and creates an HTML file which shows the differences between the two documents.

The RFC Editor is in the process of changing the canonical input format of Internet-Draft and RFC documents. Further information on the process can be found on the RFC Editor at the RFC Editor site.

Usage

rfc-xmldiff accepts a pair of XML documents as input and outputs an HTML document.

Basic Usage: rfc-xmldiff [options] SOURCE1 SOURCE2

Options

The following parameters affect how rfc-xmldiff behaves, however none are required.

Short	Long	Description
-C	--clear-cache	purge the cache and exit
-h	--help	show the help message and exit
-N	--no-network	don’t use the network to resolve references
-q	--quiet	don’t print anything
-r	--raw	don’t use the xml2rfc vocabulary when matching
-v	--verbose	print extra information
-V	--version	display the version number and exit
-X	--no-xinclude	don’t resolve xi:include elements
-o FILENAME	--out=FILENAME	specify an output filename
-t FILENAME	--template=FILENAME	specify HTML template filename
.	--resource-url=URL	specify the URL for resources in the template

Templates

Two template files are installed with the package:

• single.html - provides just the XML difference between the two files. This is the default template

• base.html - provides three columns containing the left source files, the XML difference and the right source files.

For new template files, the following variables are define:

• title - provides a default window title

• body - contains the XML difference HTML

• leftFile - contains the left source files

• rightFile - contains the right source files

• resource_dir - contains the URL to find the resources. This defaults to the Template directory of the package.

Dependencies

rfc-xmldiff depends on the following packages:

• lxml (>= 4.1.1)

• requests (>= 2.5.0)

• rfctools_common (>= 0.5.5)

• cffi (>= 1.0.0)

Changelog

Version 0.5.8.1 (Wed 18 July)

• Switch to a word by word diff computation for display

Version 0.5.8 (Wed 11 July)

• Change the underlying difference algorithm used to word based

• Point to network server for all resources

Version 0.5.7 (Mon 2 July)

• Add options dealing w/ no network and no entity resolution