Re: DIFF method

Geoffrey M Clemm wrote:
> 
> The only interesting thing aobut a DIFF method is the format of its result.

The diff calculation itself can require software that can't be distributed
to clients, because of licensing limitations, programming language, resources
or whatever. Note that it can be more than just a diff of text files. I
will use DeltaXML, for example, which is specialised in calculating the diff
between two XML documents. It inserts mark-up in its own namespace in the
resulting document.

The format can also be converted on the fly, depending on the "Accept"
request header. I could convert it to PDF, again with tools that are only
available on the server.

> Cheers,
> Geoff

Regards,

Werner.

> 
> Werner wrote on 03/20/2006 04:28:34 AM:
>> Shouldn't there be a DIFF method? Calculating the difference between
>> two versions may be a very specialised operation for some document
>> formats. The software or resources to accomplish it may not be available
>> to clients.

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