Altova DiffDog

Altova DiffDog 2009 Professional Edition is the powerful diff/merge tool for files and folders. This XML-aware synchronization tool quickly compares files and directories, highlights differences, and merges content via its intuitive interface.

Features: DiffDog - XML-aware diff/merge tool for file, folder, and directory differencing tool for files, directories, and database tables. It lets you quickly compare and merge text or source code files, synchronize directories, and compare database tables via its straightforward visual interface. It also provides advanced XML-aware differencing and editing capabilities. This synchronization tool can quickly compare and merge source code and text files or directory pairs via the user interface. This is easy to use and simple intuitively. The application is XML aware and provides differencing and editing capabilities. It integrates easily with any version control system that would support external applications that find out file differences. Comparing XML files, folders and directories, compare & merge of office 2007 files or even compare files within Zip archives are possible. Merge the differences easily.

Editing of content can be done within the differencing display itself. merge changes, and instantly re-compare. Intelligent syntax-coloring, line numbering, indentation guides, folding margins, and other innovative features assist in comparing source-code and XML files. The differences this application can find include DTD/schema-based validation, well-formedness checking, intelligent entry helpers, optional entity resolution, consideration of attribute and child element ordering etc. and more. It allows you to compare XML files in the advanced text view or the tabular grid view. Capabilities for directory comparisons exist. It lets you selectively move files into target directories or synchronize entire directories in a single step.

Overall: A very handy differencing tool with nice set of features.

Altova DiffDog 2010 Enterprise Edition is the powerful differencing tool for files, folders, and databases. This easy-to-use synchronization tool quickly compares and merges text or source code files, directories, databases, and XML Schemas via its intuitive visual interface. DiffDog provides advanced XML-aware differencing and editing capabilities based on those in Altova XMLSpy, and integrates with any version control system that supports external differencing applications. For optimal efficiency, you can edit content directly within its differencing display, merge changes, and instantly re-compare. Intelligent syntax-coloring, line numbering, indentation guides, and other innovative features assist in comparing source-code and XML files. DiffDog tells you when XML files are semantically equal even if they are not identical in a text-based comparison. Its XML differencing capabilities include DTD/schema-based validation, well-formedness checking, intelligent entry helpers, optional entity resolution, and more. DiffDog intelligently compares directories, applying special comparison rules based on each file type, and opens and edits file pairs directly from a directory comparison. DiffDog even inspects Zip archives and compares contents based on the original file types. You can selectively move files into target directories or sync entire directories in a single step. DiffDog lets you compare and merge database structures or table contents, whether they are the same database type or different databases. After comparing XML Schemas, DiffDog can generate an XSLT file or a MapForce mapping to convert XML data from one schema to the other. With all this functionality, you can reconcile source code, XML files, binary file versions, databases, and XML Schemas with one tool. Let DiffDog 2010 Enterprise Edition track down the differences in your development and database projects. DiffDog is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Free trial: www.altova.com.