TextComparator

[Sam King]

If we're on a unix system, I assume that we can use diff rather than TextComparator.  Is that correct?

[ybakos]

Correct. Also use the -b option to ignore whitespace if you want.

[n00b2Tetris]

If we use diff -w, is that also okay?

For instance... is <keyword>class</keyword> compared to <keyword> class </keyword> the same thing?

[cadet1620]

diff -w will work for nand2tetris.

For instance... is <keyword>class</keyword> compared to <keyword> class </keyword> the same thing?

To be overly picky, the XML specs say that whitespace in element data is significant.

The only purpose for writing the XML is for testing your parser. We don't insist that you write spec compliant XML 8^)

--Mark