Adobe Acrobat - PDF Forms Comparison

Dear Acrobat Users,
I desperatly need your help on that one... We are using PDF Forms (created using Adobe LiveCycle), these forms are injected with XML Date using LiveCycle servers.
We need to compare to these forms between each other, but the built-in compare tool in Acrobat X does not seem to handle PDF forms comparison.
Do you know how we could proceed to compare the data entered in these forms ?
We even tried using some software to do a Diff comparison on the XML data, but the problem with this scenario is that we cannot find a way to highlight the changes in the PDF form, once reinjected with the XML data (no way to control the formating from the data itsel e.g. using HTML code...)
Thanks for your help...
Thibault

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