Too many changes when deleting

[Kyllian176]

Hello, I tried to delete a "subelement" in a xml file :

File1.xml :
<alldatas> <text>random</text> <issue> <first>false</first> <second>false</second> </issue> <cancelData>false</cancelData> <client/> <time>0</time> </alldatas>

File2.xml :
<alldatas> <text>random</text> <issue> <first>false</first> </issue> <cancelData>false</cancelData> <client/> <time>0</time> </alldatas>

I tried : xmldiff file1.xml file2.xml

I expected the following result :
[delete, /alldatas/issue/second[1]] (something like that)
But I got :
[move, /alldatas/issue/second[1], /alldatas[1], 2] [rename, /alldatas/second[1], cancelData] [delete, /alldatas/cancelData[2]]

Is there any way to deal with "subelements" ? It works fine if I delete for example.

Thanks in advance.

[Lennart Regebro]

With simple XML data with no attributes the content of the data is important, and the two nodes here have the same content, and then these things happens. In this case using --fast-match and making a simpler comparison actually gets better results, but in real world examples that's less common.

I have tweaked exactly how to calculate matches to be more generically useful, and there probably will be further changes in the future, but there will never be a perfect matching algorithm for all use cases.

[Kyllian176]

Thanks a lot for your quick answer. --fast-match seems to provide what I expected, I will look further with this option.
Thanks again.