aqFile.Compare not matching XML files even though they are the same
- 7 years ago
The files are the same and also do differ - the context is important.
If you compare byte by byte, i.e. a binary compare, they are one byte different in size. There is an additional non visible character after the "NINO" string:
</Text>
<Text Name="Text20"><TextValue>NINO
</TextValue>This is 0x0D and the other is 0x0D 0x0A - very common issue with different line endings. The size differs and that is enough to fail a binary compare. See image
Contextually, if you look at them as XML files and look at the content in that context, the relevant content is equal.
I suspect you need to do a line by line comparison but even that is not a true XML context sensitive comparison as different formatting may throw the compariosn off.. A proper comparison would be to parse the XML file with an appropriate driver or library and compare in the true context.
Hope that helps.
Harnek