R – word document format that supports version diff comparisions

diff()documentmerge

I know this question has probably been asked already but I would really like to know of a program that will show line by line the differences between to word documents. Thus I need a word document format that supports this (.doc, .docx and .ods obviously don't).

Are HTML and XML the only formats that come close to supporting this feature or is there another format?

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MS Word 2007 itself can compare docs for you! Check this link. Is this what you are looking for?

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C# – Building Interpreter Of a Document Format

I assume you're doing this for the sake of learning how to do it. If that's the case, it is a worthwhile venture and I understand.

You'll want to start out by learning LL parsers and grammars. That will help you interpret the document that has been read from a file into a document object model (DOM). From there you can create routines to manipulate or render that document tree.

Good luck!

Git – How to diff one file to an arbitrary version in Git

You can do:

git diff master~20:pom.xml pom.xml

... to compare your current pom.xml to the one from master 20 revisions ago through the first parent. You can replace master~20, of course, with the object name (SHA1sum) of a commit or any of the many other ways of specifying a revision.

Note that this is actually comparing the old pom.xml to the version in your working tree, not the version committed in master. If you want that, then you can do the following instead:

git diff master~20:pom.xml master:pom.xml

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