[SerializableAttribute]
public class DifferentRootElementException : DeltaXMLProcessingException

[SerializableAttribute]
public class DifferentRootElementException : DeltaXMLProcessingException

<SerializableAttribute>
Public Class DifferentRootElementException 
	Inherits DeltaXMLProcessingException

<SerializableAttribute>
Public Class DifferentRootElementException 
	Inherits DeltaXMLProcessingException

[SerializableAttribute]
public ref class DifferentRootElementException : public DeltaXMLProcessingException

[SerializableAttribute]
public ref class DifferentRootElementException : public DeltaXMLProcessingException

[<SerializableAttribute>]
type DifferentRootElementException =  
    class 
        inherit DeltaXMLProcessingException 
    end

[<SerializableAttribute>]
type DifferentRootElementException =  
    class 
        inherit DeltaXMLProcessingException 
    end

Files being compared must have equivalent root elements. This is because it is not possible to represent files with different root elements with a delta format.

The definition of equivalence/equality for root elements is: if one element is in a namespace then the other element must be in a namespace with the same URI; additionally the localNames of the elements must be identical. Note that this does not preclude, for example, using different namespace prefixes or different use of a default namespace.

Methods are provided to report both the QNames used (which could include different prefixes) or names in the {URI}localName notation.

Note: the getErrorCode() method is provided for compatibility with earlier XML Compare releases; when called with this exception the result will be: 4