> >
> > The problems are (and I quote) :-
> >
> > The XML-Merging tool is buggy in three respects:
> >
> > - crashes often
> > - frontend is very complex
> > - does not handle german umlauts properly...
> >
> > I´ve been looking at the default.magic file, and was thinking about
> > taking out the xml line - default is text_file
Hi,
As one of the developers of XML diff merge, I would like
to apologise for the tool's current shortcomings. We are
aware of the problems mentioned above and are working hard
to correct them.
Because the tool does currently have the limitations you mention,
I added a "Compare/Merge as Text" feature that should make it
easy to use the text diff merge tool without the need to alter
the map or magic files:
a) If you are comparing 2 or more versions, pick the menu item
Options->Compare as Text...
This will invoke the text diff merge tool (cleardiffmrg.exe)
to compare the same set of contributors.
b) Similarly, if you are merging 3 or more contributors, pick
the menu item
Options->Merge as Text...
This will invoke the text diff merge tool (cleardiffmrg.exe)
to merge the same set of contributors.
The crash problem is fixed in the 4.1 release, which became
available last week at the Rational User Conference. The 4.1
release should also give you much improved matching results.
We're also working to correct the other problems in future
releases.
Problems storing XML files, such as those with very long lines
or UTF-16 encodings, can be worked around by chtype-ing the element
to an eltype of 'file', 'compressed_file', or 'binary_delta_file'.
Each has different characteristics; if you are unsure which to use,
it's probably best to go with 'file'.
________________________________________________________
Scot Aurenz
R a t i o n a l
the e-development company
> >
> > For existing xml files, I´m swotting up on the chtype
> command - doesn´t
> > seem to offer a recursive option, but I guess that can be
> overcome with
> > a find or grep...
> >
> > Any comments ?
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: andrew.markebo@telelogic.com
[mailto:andrew.markebo@telelogic.com
>Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1:04 PM
>To: GEwens@gaudia.com
>Cc: cciug@rational.com
>Subject: RE: [cciug] XML as normal text
>
>
>The only reason I have had problems with xml-files as text is when I had a
>file with a couple of extremely long lines, something like 4k of characters
>on one line..
>
>Clearcase text_mode doesn't like those..
>
>just do something like cleartool mkelem -eltype text_file..
>
>You can do default mappings also, but I don't have those in my head.
>
> /Andy
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