Xml Diff Patch issue

[EDN Admin]

Hi<br/>
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I am trying to use XmlDiff for our internal application. And i came across some examples which were not giving correct results.<br/>
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To the diff patch tool, if we gave 2 xml files containing below input, it gave output as identical<br/>
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Input 1 <br/>
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<root1><br/>
<a x="3" y="6" z="abc" /><br/>
</root1><br/>
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Input2<br/>
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<root1><br/>
<a x="1" y="8" z="abc"/><br/>
</root1><br/>
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As you can see, values for attributes x and y are different across the 2 xmls and ideally it shldnt say they are identical. When i looked at the code further, i saw that in method (for class XmlDiffElement)<br/>
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// compares the node to another one and returns true, if the nodes are identical;<br/>
// on elements this method ignores namespace declarations<br/>
internal override bool IsSameAs( XmlDiffNode node, XmlDiff xmlDiff )<br/>
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line<br/>
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XmlDiffAttributeOrNamespace attr2 = _attributes;<br/>
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shld be<br/>
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XmlDiffAttributeOrNamespace attr2 = element._attributes;<br/>
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I could figure out that somehow the hashvalue for element "a" was the same in both xmls. And it was not properly considering
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attributes equality (as the code above showed). Is it possible to get this fixed and could a patch be given?

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