Text (XML) comparison is marked as unimportant

[steveculshaw]

I'm doing a diff between two XML files.

The lines like ...

<BuyersItemNumber>B    427F</BuyersItemNumber>

and

<BuyersItemNumber>     B    427F</BuyersItemNumber>

are being flagged as unimportant differences

Is there anyway to have them flagged as important ... because they are :-)

[hartungr]

I ran into a similar problem in the past, and solved it by creating a grammar element that matched on my line, and then moved that new grammar element to the top of the list.

Using your example, I would create a basic element named 'buyers item', containing the regular expression

<BuyersItemNumber>.*</BuyersItemNumber>

This would show the whitespace differences as important.

[Aaron]

Thanks. This is a great solution.

If whitespace could/should be important in other instances, you can also enable the 'Embedded Whitespace' importance option in the Session Settings, Importance tab.

[steveculshaw]

Thank you