This works. Thank you Michael! Sorry I missed it. I was looking for an overridden equals() method but I guess the naming has to comply with the language-independent W3C specification.
If interested, what I'm doing is polling for a smallish XML file (2KB) being changed on a Windows file system. Date stamp checking and File content String comparison with a previous version is clearly not robust: what if a whitespace is inserted - the Document is still the same. So your answer to my problem is precisely what I need. Once again thank you. Michael Glavassevich-3 wrote: > > Have you tried Node.isEqualNode() [1]? > > [1] > http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/api/org/w3c/dom/Node.html#isEqualNode(org.w3c.dom.Node) > > Michael Glavassevich > XML Parser Development > IBM Toronto Lab > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Rob Davis-5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/05/2008 10:57:29 AM: > >> I want to compare two Document objects. >> >> That is compare their contents to see if they are exactly the same. This >> would mean recursively traversing through each node in the Document and >> comparing it with the other Document. >> >> Is there are routine, method or library to do this already? >> >> If not then I could write my own, using a DOMTreeWalker for each > Document, >> they would be iterated through and as soon as an inequality encountered > then >> the code would indicating not equal. >> >> Another way might be to generate a checksum and compare, or perhaps even > use >> the checksum available from the file that the Document is created from. >> >> I've already searched google and this forum using the terms compare and >> comparison. The closest I got was: >> http://www.nabble.com/Node-equals()---to7319083.html#a7319083 >> >> Which seems to be what I'm looking for in the original post of this > thread >> but the responses seem off topic and talk about "serializing entity defs >> with quotes". >> >> Thoughts? Thanks in advance. >> >> -- >> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-compare- >> Documents--Existing-library-method-available--or-use-DOMTreeWalker-- >> tp20856968p20856968.html >> Sent from the Xerces - J - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-compare-Documents--Existing-library-method-available--or-use-DOMTreeWalker--tp20856968p20912379.html Sent from the Xerces - J - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
