Bug#850791: diffoscope: diff output in xml format

[Emanuel Bronshtein]

Package: diffoscope
Version: 67
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

diff output in XML format will allow easily parsing diffoscope output in automated way, and easier understanding diffoscope output mechanism due to available XML schema.
for example:
I am working on tool to automatically detect reproducibility issues from diffoscope output at:
https://github.com/emanuelb/RID/
which currently transform diffoscope HTML output to XML in html_to_xml.py, you can run it to see possible XML output (probably there better ways to represent the information)
parsing XML output is a lot better then parsing TXT/HTML/MarkDown outputs automatically (using scripts)