How to compare two XML files online

The above tool takes two valid XML source code: Source and target XML, we process these XML files to show you if there is any difference between both files elements, attributes or values.

Once you enter valid XML code, and hit button "Check XML difference" button, we will process it and show you output, which contains target XML values or you can say element positions, different from source XML.

With difference between source and target XML, you will also see XPath, where value/element is differnt, in the output.

XML code compare and diff tool | XML comparator | XML semantic diff tool | Online XML comparator | Compare Two XML files or code side by side & View Differences

Copy the original XML data in the block on the left and new/modified data in the right block. Just click Compare and View button to view a table of all the differences found with node! The major advantage of using this tool is that it also has capability to ignore the order of XML elements or nodes.

A node is xpath at which the differences are found!

The online xml comparator API and website is free to use to anyone unless specified. You can use it free of cost. The data is never stored at our servers not even in our logs.

Features of XML comparator tool

  • Compare XML online
  • Semantic XML comparison
  • XML vs XML comparison
  • XML comparison REST API
  • XML difference tool
  • Supports large file comparison. Can be used to compare up to 100 MB of file/object size
  • Supports a flag to ignore the order of XML elements or XML nodes
  • Supports a flag to ignore the namespaces
  • Supports a flag to ignore the namespaces with specific regex pattern
  • Get results in table format with all the mode information for quick reference
  • Compare Old vs New XML files or objects
  • Free to use
  • High performance custom internal library which uses multithreading model for comparison of large files
  • Please note that if ignore order is true then it takes longer time with 1k differences per second!

XML Comparator is used to compare and merge two XML files online and its free! This tool has been built up to compare two XML documents considering each element and attribute values. Just need to provide the XML contents, it will compare and find out the differences.
The XML comparator supports XML namespaces fully. The declarations of XML namespace need to be explicit and on the root XML element level.if xml name space defined in other elements, it copied the namespace decleration at the root level and then compare in the documents.It supports default namespace also.

Its not a text compare. It mainly compare elements and attributes from both the XMLs.
Click Here To Watch A Demo On It(https://youtu.be/grECgKDbeuw).

Using this tool you can do the following.
  1. Compare two XML files
  2. Merge two XML Files
  3. Summary of changes. Mainly the XPaths which got changed.
  4. Show the differences with color code. Which help you to visualize the difference easily
It provides following options to compare.
  1. Sorting and comparing
  2. Comparing XML ignoring comments
  3. Comparing XML ignoring element and attribute values from both the XMLs. It is XML structure comparasion.
First it analyze both the XML file content. Check the precoditions before compare. Once preconditions are pased, it copare the attribute values and element values in both the XMLs. It cheks for new element and attribute also. It detects if any element / attribute is deleted from XMl2. Mark the differences with various colors. Red means deleted. Green means added. Blue means modified.
Pre Conditions:
  1. Both XML needs to be well formed
  2. Root element name of both the XMLS has to be same.
Steps To Execute:
  1. Add first XML content in the first text area.
  2. Add 2nd XML content in the 2nd text area.
  3. Click on the compare XML button
User Comments:

Copy the original XML code in the block on the left and modified XML code in the right block. Just click Check button to view side by side comparison.

Online XML Diff Tool Features

Is this XML diff Checker free?

Yes, this service is free and we don't save any data unless you explicitly ask us to save.

What are other features of this XML Comparator?

  • This XML diffing tool can show syntax highlighting for your comfort.
  • You can easily find all the occurances of particular string if you want to change them.

This small tool allows to compare two XML data structures, and visualize the diff.

Copy and paste, drag and drop a XML file or directly type in the editors above, and then click on "Compare" button they will be compared if the two XML are valids.You can also click on "load XML from URL" button to load your XML data from a URL (Must be https).

You can also click on "Browse XML file" button to load your XML data from a local file.

You can also directly compare two XML files by specifying their urls in the GET parameters url1 and url2.
Example: https://extendsclass.com/xml-diff.html?url1=https://extendsclass.com/mock/rest/3b3aea6de65f5bd7576a1079bf9b6ec5/sample1.xml&url2=https://extendsclass.com/mock/rest/3b3aea6de65f5bd7576a1079bf9b6ec5/sample2.xml

Then you can visualize the differences between the two XML documents. It highlights the elements which are different:

  • Different value between the two XML: highlight in red color
  • Element only presents in a single XML: highlight in yellow or orange color

You can navigate to next / previous difference:

  • Clicks on "Next diff" button in order to go to the next difference
  • Clicks on "Previous diff" button in order to go to the previous difference


Online XML compare tool

It can be helpful to compare XML documents, unfortunately it can be difficult to see the differences between large XML documents. This free online tool will allows you to do this easily.

XML diff tool makes a semantic comparison, it compares every attribute–value pairs of objects. It compares each node according to their position in the arrays. It sorts and formats the XML strings in order to find the semantic differences instead of just the text ones.

Note: For mixed-content elements (containing character data and elements), it compares the elements two by two according to their order (instead of by type) in the parent element.

Mixed content exemple:

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