Re: XML file difference highlights

Sounds like you need XML::DifferenceMarkup and one or more of the many, many email composition and sending modules.

format them in such a way that they can be easy to view

This suggests that you don't yet have a real spec, since "easy to view" is very subjective. As ever, the process should be:

Detailed spec
Algorithm
Tests
Code

(although you might promote Tests to 2 if you fancy it)

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Re^2: XML file difference highlights by choroba (Cardinal) on Jun 14, 2017 at 16:47 UTC
See also comparing XML files. I still use the following bash script to compare XML files and usually find its output informative enough, if not more readable than various XML oriented diff tools. `#!/bin/bash a=($@) b=$# f2=${a[$((--b))]} f1=${a[$((--b))]} diff "${a[@]:0:$b}" \ <(xmllint --c14n "$f1" \|xmllint --format -) \ <(xmllint --c14n "$f2" \|xmllint --format -)` [download] ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-\|\|-\|5+lengthSq)`"S\|oS2"`map{chr \|+ord }map{substrSq`S_+\|`\|}3E\|-\|`7**2-3:)=~y+S\|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a, [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: XML file difference highlights
by choroba (Cardinal) on Jun 14, 2017 at 16:47 UTC

comparing XML files

I still use the following bash script to compare XML files and usually find its output informative enough, if not more readable than various XML oriented diff tools.

#!/bin/bash

a=($@)
b=$#
f2=${a[$((--b))]}
f1=${a[$((--b))]}
diff "${a[@]:0:$b}" \
   <(xmllint --c14n "$f1" |xmllint --format -) \
   <(xmllint --c14n "$f2" |xmllint --format -)
[download]

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,
[download]

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