Re: Finding differences between files.

Subject: Re: Finding differences between files.
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:44:56 -0700


Quoting carthur <carthur000 -at- sympatico -dot- ca>:


> One of our developers sent me the following question:
>
> "Is there a document file format/tool that the developers could use for
> feature specifications where we can easily diff doc versions? Something a
> little more sophisticated than a plain text file and less annoying than
> word?"

What about just outputting to HTML or XML?

diff may give some false positives for formatting changes, but otherwise it
should work fairly well.

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