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Running Your First Word Comparison

Running Your First Word Comparison

Word Compare provides the necessary toolkit to compare two Microsoft Word files and produce a Word file output with markup to represent the changes in the native review comment markup of Word.

For a conceptual introduction to Word Compare see DeltaNova Word Comparison.

Further Information on a Word Comparison 

java -jar deltanova-year.x.y.z.jar describe msword

Running a Word Comparison

Bash
java -jar deltanova-year.x.y.z.jar compare msword samples/compare/msword/inputA.docx samples/compare/msword/inputB.docx result.docx

Writing a Config File

The configuration file is validated against the XML Schema included in the product distribution in the relevant samples directory e.g. samples/compare/msword/. Associate it with the XSD to enable XML editor autocompletion.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration xmlns="com.deltaxml.msword.config"
               xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
               xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="msword-compare-configuration.xsd">
  <parameters>
    <!-- configuration elements here -->
  </parameters>
</configuration>