On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: > Le 16/11/2015 10:14, Liviu Andronic a écrit : >> >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes >> <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: >>> >>> Le 14/11/2015 19:05, Gordon Cooper a écrit : >>>> >>>> >>>> Certainly, will do. Files are a software manual and readily >>>> available. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks. Of course, we can't guarantee that we will find a fix, but we >>> have >>> to try at least... >>> >> I recall reading some time ago that if we switched the LyX source to >> valid XML, our diff troubles would evaporate (along with a number of >> other difficulties, like epub conversion). > > > I'm not sure, but indeed one can expect that a xmldiff tool exists somewhere > and one may hope that it is correctly implemented :) > A quick search for "xmldiff" suggests that we'd be more hard-pressed to choose one, rather than find one: https://www.logilab.org/859/ http://diffxml.sourceforge.net/
>> Is this still so? And are >> we any closer to XML'ing .lyx files? > > > No, we did not move on that. I tend to be suspicious of miraculous > solutions, though. > This article may be relevant when it comes to diffing XML: http://www.adrianmouat.com/bit-bucket/2009/05/why-use-diffxml/ Liviu > JMarc > -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
