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Plain text comparisons would say the two lines differed, whereas the OP wants them to be reported as the same.
– ChrisF
Commented Dec 7, 2009 at 16:33
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i.e. Canonically compare the XML.
– Chris W. Rea
Commented Dec 9, 2009 at 20:08
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Beyond Compare really sucks for this. It seems to just not be aware of XML elements and do mostly just text comparison.
– Rob K
Commented May 23, 2016 at 17:54
Beyond Compare has an XML plugin but I was never able to install it properly, so... Nyeah... I came to this page and got wiser...
– Erk
Commented Mar 14, 2019 at 15:02

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