How to make a NON-LINE based diff between two strings in Java

Question

I have to compare the text content of two xml elements, eg.

<p>During lunch he hears strangers whispering, catching the name "Potter" and "Harry", and someone saying You-Know-Who has gone at last. </p>

and

<p>During dinner he hears strangers whispering, catching the name "Rossi" and "Mario", and someone saying You-Know-Who has gone at first. </p>

What I'm looking for is some java libraries to make a diff between the content of paragraphs. All the tools I found makes a line diff. But they're not what I want, simply because i have no lines, but "strings" to compare. What I need is to have a char-based diff: eg. a diff that tells me something like " from the first file, remove char from 8 to 12, add the string "dinner" from char 8."

Answer 1

This seems like a good match http://stackoverflow.com/questions/132478/how-to-perform-string-diffs-in-java

also check out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/536478/java-simple-string-diff-util