[jsword-devel] Comparing texts

[Troy A. Griffitts]

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On 08/29/2012 07:15 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> You might consider using CollateX, which does token level (word or 
> other) collation, and does a pretty good job detecting things like 
> transpositions, etc.  Here is how we use it here at the INTF:
>
> http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/web/test/collation?key=Jn.3.16&collate=graph
>
> Our web service for this is here (with example parameters following):
>
> http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/community/vmr/api/collate/
> http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/community/vmr/api/collate/?w1=Hello+world&l1=x&w2=Hello+cruel+world&format=svg
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>
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> On 08/29/2012 06:50 PM, Chris Burrell wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> The current diffing produces some fairly strange results from time to 
>> time. I was wondering how much work it would be to make it work for a 
>> word by word diff, rather than letter by letter. I've a quick scan 
>> through the diff-ing engine, but it looks fairly complicated and 
>> can't figure out how much of this is a copy of 
>> http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch and how much has 
>> changed.
>>
>> In the example below,
>>
>>            "And God saw th_at th_e light *, that it was good : and 
>> God divid*_was good. And God separat_ed the light from the darkness  
>>        "
>>
>> The new diff would hopefully not chop "that and "the"  in the first 
>> occurrence above. It would not chop "divid" off either, but rather 
>> have longer words, which would in turn make things slightly more 
>> readable.
>>
>> (bold indicates strike through)
>>
>> Chris
>>
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