Is it possible to compare 2 XML files properly and get a good output?
Here´s an example:
compare file1.xml with file2.xml
Write the differences into Another file
Really appreciate your answer
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Yes it is possible. You would Compare-Object cmdlet. But it’s not straight forward. You will have to mention which property of that xml to compare.
I would suggest you to read the doc (Get-Help Compare-Object -Online) and give it a try. Post the code here when you are stuck or hit by an error.
For doing comparisons, I find powershell to be very…lackluster.
If you want to automate a comparison, I would suggest using Beyond Compare, it does have a command line you can use: bcomp.exe. There is a learning curve, but its pretty well documented. I have a powershell script where I call that to compare directories to each other post deployment.
\support\BC\Portable\bcomp.exe `@"BCCOmp.txt" $newStage\$site "$sitepath" "localhost_output.html" /silent |out-null $MMF=(Get-Content .\localhost_output.html) $MMF |findstr /i "Files" |out-file local.html;Start-Process local.html BCCOmp.txt is a file that feeds the report generation: log logfile.txt criteria binary load %1 %2 expand all select all.diff.files folder-report layout:summary output-to:%3 output-options:html-color