Html support. Help! :) about jsdiff HOT 12 CLOSED

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+1 for feature.

Just leaving a note here, the HTML support requested appears to be in essence a tree based diff algorithm which is wildly different from a text-based diff.

There is a relatively old project which does this for xml https://github.com/fdintino/xydiff, I have not searched a long time but perhaps there are newer or even better open-source solutions available.

Perhaps an investigation into it could lead to the feature. Not sure how it can incorporated though.

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Any updates on this? @kpdecker

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+1 for HTML support.

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are there any updates on this issue? can someone find a workaround?

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@unkw I need more explanation. For the input above, what do you want it to return as the changes?

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I expect the output as:

• "production" as insert
• "javascript" as modified (since changed the tag)

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How are you trying to use this? Just saying "javascript" because the tag changed without providing any information about what the tag that changed was does not seem very useful.

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We have rich text editor. User can change text in editor, can change font from Bold to Italic. And i need show diff what was deleted in the text, what was modified or inserted.

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@kpdecker will it be possible to realize it?

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This is a non-trivial thing to implement as it requires more knowledge of the structure of the document than the text focused diff algorithm implemented here allows for. I'm not certain that the algorithms here are good candidates for this as they are currently implemented. That's to say that this won't be implemented in the immediate term but leaving this open to revisit if I or any members of the community have time. I'm glad to accept pull requests that tackle this feature.

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@kpdecker I agree, this is not a trivial task. Thank you for the feedback and this nice library ;)

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