XML Dif?

Hi,
I am a new user to PowerShell. I have written a small program which
will send a request in XML and get the response in XML, Now I have to
compare the response which I got with Reference response XML. I don't
want to comapre line by line but it should be smart enough to give the
output saying so & so tag/attribute is missing/added in the actual
response xml. Is anybody aware of any such utility?

Thanks,
Nikhil

Do mean you want to compare to an XML schema or to an XML reference file?

Have you looked at test-xml in the powershell community extensions

http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.as...e=PowerShellCX

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"nikhil" wrote:

> Hi,
> I am a new user to PowerShell. I have written a small program which
> will send a request in XML and get the response in XML, Now I have to
> compare the response which I got with Reference response XML. I don't
> want to comapre line by line but it should be smart enough to give the
> output saying so & so tag/attribute is missing/added in the actual
> response xml. Is anybody aware of any such utility?
>
> Thanks,
> Nikhil
>
>

"RichS" <RichS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:44E3F577-A033-4B8A-9C85-8E9244D91F1A@microsoft.com...
> Do mean you want to compare to an XML schema or to an XML reference file?
>
> Have you looked at test-xml in the powershell community extensions
>
> http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.as...e=PowerShellCX
>

We don't have Compare-Xml yet but I've been thinking about it. It would be
quite useful I think.

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Keith

Wouldn't compare-object do this?

Example:
[xml]$xmldoc1 = $pathtoXml\$xmlfilename
[xml]$xmldoc2 = $pathtoXml\$xmlfilename2

compare-object $xmldoc1 $xmldoc2

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"Keith Hill" <r_keith_hill@mailhot.nospamIdotcom> wrote in message
news:4F6D2971-8463-4767-A9DC-4D8FD0300B68@microsoft.com...
> "RichS" <RichS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:44E3F577-A033-4B8A-9C85-8E9244D91F1A@microsoft.com...
>> Do mean you want to compare to an XML schema or to an XML reference file?
>>
>> Have you looked at test-xml in the powershell community extensions
>>
>> http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.as...e=PowerShellCX
>>
>
> We don't have Compare-Xml yet but I've been thinking about it. It would
> be quite useful I think.
>
> --
> Keith

depending on the situation, it almost feels better to use an XML Schema
instead of comparing a generated document to a reference instance document

"Brandon Shell" wrote:

> Wouldn't compare-object do this?
>
> Example:
> [xml]$xmldoc1 = $pathtoXml\$xmlfilename
> [xml]$xmldoc2 = $pathtoXml\$xmlfilename2
>
> compare-object $xmldoc1 $xmldoc2
>
> --
> Brandon Shell
> ---------------
> Stop by my blog some time
> Blog: http://www.bsonposh.com/
> PSH Scripts Project: www.codeplex.com/psobject
> --------------------------------------
>
> "Keith Hill" <r_keith_hill@mailhot.nospamIdotcom> wrote in message
> news:4F6D2971-8463-4767-A9DC-4D8FD0300B68@microsoft.com...
> > "RichS" <RichS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:44E3F577-A033-4B8A-9C85-8E9244D91F1A@microsoft.com...
> >> Do mean you want to compare to an XML schema or to an XML reference file?
> >>
> >> Have you looked at test-xml in the powershell community extensions
> >>
> >> http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.as...e=PowerShellCX
> >>
> >
> > We don't have Compare-Xml yet but I've been thinking about it. It would
> > be quite useful I think.
> >
> > --
> > Keith
>
>

"Brandon Shell" <tshell.mask@gmail.com> wrote in message news:O4ei68GTHHA.5068@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Wouldn't compare-object do this?
>
> Example:
> [xml]$xmldoc1 = $pathtoXml\$xmlfilename
> [xml]$xmldoc2 = $pathtoXml\$xmlfilename2
>
> compare-object $xmldoc1 $xmldoc2

That didn't work when I tried it before:

21> $x1 | fxml
<doc>
<book author="Hugh Jass">
<title>To Here and back</title>
</book>
</doc>
22> $x2 | fxml
<doc>
<book author="R. Hugh Jass">
<title>Here, there and everywhere</title>
</book>
</doc>
23> Compare-Object $x1 $x2
24>

Compare doesn't work here unless you specify which properties to compare but that would be too cumbersome (if it would even provide a satisfying result).

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