office-diff

office-diff

Diff tool for OpenXML Office files

About The Project

office-diff is a diff tool for OpenXML Office files that shows differences on code more precisely xml level.

While working on various Office file editing projects, I found it very difficult to figure out why some processes change or even damage a file.
First I extracted the files, formatted the whole xml and used git to compare the two extracted directories. But I thought it might be helpful to have a tool that does all this automatically (without the git dependency).
For this reason, I have developed office-diff. This tool extracts the specified files to a temporary location, formats the xml and outputs a unified diff.

Usage

# output to stdout
office-diff <file1> <file2>

# output to file
office-diff <file1> <file2> --output result.diff

Roadmap

See the open issues for a list of proposed features (and known issues).

Get Support

This project is maintained by @develerik. Please understand that I won't be able to provide individual support via email. I also believe that help is much more valuable if it's shared publicly, so that more people can benefit from it.

• Report a bug
• Requests a new feature
• Report a security vulnerability

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct.

Maintainers

• Erik Bender - Initial work - develerik

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

Distributed under the ISC License. See LICENSE for more information.