Re: Autoexpanding ZIP archives?

Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> Why wouldn't the binary diff algorithm be suitable for XML documents?

It is, but that isn't the smallest possible diff for that document type,
which could be generated by some magical xmldiff like one of these:

        http://www.logilab.org/projects/xmldiff/
        http://apps.gotdotnet.com/xmltools/xmldiff/overview.html
        http://software.decisionsoft.com/tools.html
        http://forge.nesc.ac.uk/projects/xmldiff/

all of which provide a context sensitive diff, based on the underlying
XML structure. The binary diff algorithm doesn't know nothin' 'bout
parsin' no XML files, so it is just a binary mapping between two
collections of bytes.

John

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