Suggestions on how build an HTML Diff tool?

Question

In this post I asked if there were any tools that compare the structure (not actual content) of 2 HTML pages. I ask because I receive HTML templates from our designers, and freq

Answer 1

This has been an excellent start. A few more clarifications/comments:

• I probably don't care about IDs, since .net will mangle them
• some of the structure will be in a repeater or other such control, so I might end up having more or fewer repeating elements

further thought: I think a good start would be to assume the html is XHTML compliant. I could then infer the schema (using the new .net XmlSchemaInference methods), then diff the schemata. I can then look at the differences and consider whether or not they're significant.