Enable textual diff of iWork Pages documents.

.gitattributes

*.pages/index.xml.gz	diff=iworkpages

config

[diff "iworkpages"]
	textconv = xsltproc $GIT_DIR/Pages.xsl

Pages.xsl

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:sf="http://developer.apple.com/namespaces/sf">

<xsl:template match="sf:p">
	<xsl:apply-templates/>
	<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="sf:lnbr">
	<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template>
	<xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Hey, this is so awesome and exactly what i'm looking for, but I can't get it to work.. It doesn't change my calls to git diff at all..

I also tried running Pages.xsl by itself, but with no luck:

$ xsltproc Pages.xsl thesis.pages
thesis.pages:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
PK
^
unable to parse thesis.pages

Any ideas on what I might be missing? Has the format of *.pages files changed since you published this gist?

Thanks! :)

Hey! Actually, I went ahead and forked this gist to fix it to work with the newer .pages format. I had to add a shell script, because now the *.pages files are actually .zip files, so they have to be unzipped and then the unzipped files need to be deleted.

I wasn't able to add ".git/config" to my gist like you have, though, and my guess is because git has changed the rules since you posted this gist?

Anyway. If you want to pull from my updated gist, this should work for Pages '09 files:
https://gist.github.com/NHDaly/7669596