Support for xml? about difftastic

[DaKnig]

hi! just wanted to bring your attention to tree-sitter-xml, if that could help. I am also interested in getting xml supported.

[mgunyho]

I'm interested in this as well. I have recently tried this tree-sitter xml parser with some simple SVG files and it seems to work: https://github.com/ObserverOfTime/tree-sitter-xml

[Wilfred]

It's an interesting idea. The extremely simple parser in difftastic using syntax.toml wouldn't work well XML's delimiters.

If we used something like roxmltree (an XML parser that preserves comments), we could use difftastic's internal AST and diffing would just work for XML.

I'm going to close this issue for now: it's not a goal before 1.0.

[BerengarWLehr]

Would love xml support as well

[DaKnig]

please add .ui files to the xml extension list, thats the extension used by many gnome apps for their xml buildable files

[Wilfred]

@DaKnig done :)