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What is an orderless comparison, and how would I use it?

April 26, 2017comparison orderless

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What is an orderless comparison, and how would I use it?

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XML documents are generally ordered. In other words, the order of elements within the file is significant and if two elements are exchanged you expect this to be reported as a difference. However, in many files the order of certain elements is not significant and it is useful to compare files without worrying about element order. For example, the elements in an XML Schema element are orderless as each must refer to a different type of element. DeltaXML can be instructed to ignore order within specific elements, at different levels in the hierarchy, by adding attributes to identify those that contain orderless element sets. See our demonstration of orderless comparison. More details of these techniques can be found in our paper on ” How to compare orderless elements”.