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Compare Two Documents
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Summary

This tool compares two documents by analysing various properties such as...

For more details, see here.

Walkthrough

  1. Source text
    1. Enter `http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext91/peter16.txt' in the Text source URL field;
  2. Source text
    1. Enter `http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext91/alice30.txt' in the Text source URL field;
  3. Subtext limited to
    1. Enter `body' in the Elements field.
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» Source text
  Example: http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/sampleDocs/plainText.txt


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Summary

Determines the text source. Text can be obtained from a URL or by uploading a file.

Fields

Source URL
Text from the entered URL will be used as the data source for the analysis.

Local file
Use this field to upload a local file for analysis.

Treat XML/HTML as plain text
Enabling this option will strip tags from an HTML or XML document. <p> and <br /> in HTML documents and all tags in XML documents are converted to new lines (i.e. \n).
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» Second source text
  Example: http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/sampleDocs/plainText2.txt


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Summary

Determines the text source. Text can be obtained from a URL or by uploading a file.

Fields

Source URL
Text from the entered URL will be used as the data source for the analysis.

Local file
Use this field to upload a local file for analysis.

Treat XML/HTML as plain text
Enabling this option will strip tags from an HTML or XML document. <p> and <br /> in HTML documents and all tags in XML documents are converted to new lines (i.e. \n).
» Words to compare






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Summary

Limits included text to text that appears between specific tags. Furthermore, words can be filtered using a variety of word filtering techniques.

Fields

All words
Words will not be filtered.

Words in the stop list below
Words that do not appear in the stop list defined below will be filtered.

Words not in the stop list below
Words that appear in the stop list defined below wlil be filtered.

Words matching pattern
Words matching the entered regular expression will not be filtered.

Word list typed in
Only words entered in the text field will not be filtered.

Text file with words
Only words found in the uploaded file will not be filtered. Words should be delimited by commas.

Use Glasgow stop_words list
Words found in the Glasgow list will be filtered.
» Results
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Summary

Allows the user to choose how the results will be formatted and whether they should be displayed in a new browser window.

Fields

Sort
Allows you to sort the results in one of several ways.

Display as
Determines the format in which results will be delivered

Open results in new window
Checking this box will display the results in a new window. This option is selected by default. In some cases pop-up blockers may disallow windows from being created, in which case this option may be de-selected.

 

 

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