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diff --git a/bundles/org.eclipse.compare/compare/org/eclipse/compare/rangedifferencer/package.html b/bundles/org.eclipse.compare/compare/org/eclipse/compare/rangedifferencer/package.html deleted file mode 100644 index 368068b3b..000000000 --- a/bundles/org.eclipse.compare/compare/org/eclipse/compare/rangedifferencer/package.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,44 +0,0 @@ -<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> -<html> -<head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> - <meta name="Author" content="IBM"> - <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) [Netscape]"> - <title>Package-level Javadoc</title> -</head> -<body> -Provides support for finding the differences between -two or three sequences of comparable entities. -<h2> -Package Specification</h2> - -The class <b>RangeDifferencer</b> finds longest sequences of matching and -non-matching comparable entities. Its implementation is based on -an objectified version of the algorithm described in: -<i>A File Comparison Program,</i> by Webb Miller and Eugene W. Myers, -Software Practice and Experience, Vol. 15, Nov. 1985. -<p> - -Clients must supply the input to the differencer as an implementation -of the <b>IRangeComparator</b> interface. -An <b>IRangeComparator</b> breaks the input data into a sequence -of entities and provides a method for comparing -one entity with the entity in another <b>IRangeComparator</b>. -<p> - -For example, to compare two text documents and find longest common -sequences of matching and non-matching lines, -the implementation of <b>IRangeComparator</b> -must break the document into lines and provide a method for testing -whether two lines are considered equal. -See <b>org.eclipse.compare.internal.DocLineComparator</b> for how this can be done. -<p> - -The differencer returns the differences among these sequences as an -array of <b>RangeDifference</b> objects. -Every single <b>RangeDifference</b> describes the kind of difference -(no change, change, addition, deletion) and the corresponding ranges -of the underlying comparable entities in the two or three inputs. - -</body> -</html> |