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Idea: cleaner XML source for diffs

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Subject: Idea: cleaner XML source for diffs
From: Andy Dent <dent at oofile dot com dot au>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:40:20 +0800
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I thought I'd kick this around before submitting a feature request.

I've been comparing a bit of code recently in XML and it's a noisy process because of the inline storage of the GUI state of each editable object.

Two otherwise identical projects can have massive differences because of all the <StartSelRow>24</StartSelRow> etc.

As I do quite a lot of XML work I know that it is not a *necessary* pattern to keep everything inline - you can have references elsewehere in the document and break it into sections, with highly volatile data like that in one section.

That would keep the source code of objects pure source code and make diffs much easier.

Is this important enough to anyone else to be worth requesting?

Andy
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