iati-diff

Script made to spot differences between XML files IATI activities against the XML file provided by the Datastore on the same activity.

Requirements

• Python 3
• pip All requirements can be currently found in the requirements.txt file and installed via pip with the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Files found in this repository

• iati-diff.py: Main script used to spot differences between IATI-activity files
• activity_style.xsl: XML Style Sheet file required for the input activity file to be split by iati-diff.py in order to generate the files to be compared 1:1 against the datastore.
• htmlformatter.xslt: Used for styling and customization of visualization of differences found in the output files.

Running IATI-Diff

IATI-Diff can be run using the following command via command prompt:

python iati-diff.py "query_to_file"

Output and Visualization

IATI-Diff produces a XML file with the differences found on each activity compared to its datastore counterpart, as well as a HTML version for friendly visualization. The output files can be found in the /differences/ folder, named after its IATI-Identifier.