<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Produce diff of two XML documents</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="xmldiff-base.construct.html">XMLDiff\Base::__construct</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="xmldiff-base.merge.html">XMLDiff\Base::merge</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.xmldiff-base.html">XMLDiff\Base</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="xmldiff-base.diff" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">XMLDiff\Base::diff</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PECL xmldiff >= 0.8.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">XMLDiff\Base::diff</span> — <span class="dc-title">Produce diff of two XML documents</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-xmldiff-base.diff-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="modifier">abstract</span> <span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type"><a href="language.pseudo-types.html#language.types.mixed" class="type mixed">mixed</a></span> <span class="methodname"><strong>XMLDiff\Base::diff</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type"><a href="language.pseudo-types.html#language.types.mixed" class="type mixed">mixed</a></span> <code class="parameter">$from</code></span> , <span class="methodparam"><span class="type"><a href="language.pseudo-types.html#language.types.mixed" class="type mixed">mixed</a></span> <code class="parameter">$to</code></span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Abstract diff method to be implemented by inheriting classes. </p> <p class="para"> The basic purpose of this method is to produce diff of the two documents. The param order matters and will produce different output. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-xmldiff-base.diff-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">from</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> Source XML document. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">to</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> Target XML document. </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-xmldiff-base.diff-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Implementation dependent. </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="xmldiff-base.construct.html">XMLDiff\Base::__construct</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="xmldiff-base.merge.html">XMLDiff\Base::merge</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.xmldiff-base.html">XMLDiff\Base</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>