Data Differencing Tool Overview

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Liquid Studio includes a Data Differencing Tool with the following features:

Supports comparing XML, JSON and Text File.
Advanced heuristic algorithms are used to examine the source files to determine whether attributes and elements are new, deleted or have moved.
A host of XML aware options allow you to filter out the changes that are not of interest (e.g. whitespace, comments, or processor directives).
Presents a side by side display of the selected files to compare, along with an overview sidebar showing all of the differences.

You can run the tool from the icon on the desktop 'Liquid Data Diff Viewer' or from Liquid Studio's Tools menu item 'Data Diff'.

After selecting the 'Source File' and 'Changed File' you wish to compare, the tool will attempt to open these files and compare using the most relevant differencing engine.

If you select invalid XML or JSON documents, the Text Diff Tool will be automatically selected.

You can open new files using the menu item File->Open, and you can swap the Source and Changed files by clicking menu item Edit->Swap Files.

There are also menu options to find text in the currently selected file and find the next or previous difference.