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Reputation: 6186

Comparing two schemas to find changes

I am looking at 20000 line schema and I want to check what has changed in this schema since previous release. I need to figure out what is different in 2 versions of same schema.

Are there any good tools for that? 90% of schema is still the same, but I want some kind of list of changes. Any help is appreciated.

edit => The challenge in comparison is that version 1 of the schema is split into 4 schema (one including another) and version 2 is one single merged schema.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 313

Answers (1)

Petru Gardea
Petru Gardea

Reputation: 21638

QTAssistant (I am associated with it) has an XML Schema compare built in the XML Schema Refactoring (XSR) module. All you need to do is:

  • Create a new XML Schema Refactoring File
  • Create a new XML Schema collection. You automatically get a Version 1.0.0 associated with this collection.
  • Add your first set of XSD files (one or more, whatever is you consider a version).
  • Add a new version (it'll be automatically incremented to 1.1.0)
  • Add your other version's files to this.
  • Right click on the the one of the versions and invoke the Compare with Version... command
  • At the prompt choose the other version to compare with.

QTAssistant XSR choose schema version

  • Explore the report. You can export it in Excel, etc.

This is showing comparing two different versions of ACORD, 2.21.0 vs. 2.26.0; I've picked them since also one is 1 file, and the other is 4 files.

QTAssistant XML Schema diff

This is what a report looks like.

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When you click on the source, you can see a graphical representation, side by side (if applicable).

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It may get some time to get used to the Status and Extended status, and in our experience different people may have a different interpretation, since nuances in XSD compare can be multiple. Nonetheless, support is one email away.

Upvotes: 1

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