InDesign XML Hierarchy comparison

Hi all,
I need the logic of comparing the xml hierarchy between two documents, is there any possibility to do this in InDesign Javascript.
Using InDesign CS5.5/Windows/Javascript.
Please let me know if any easy tricks to achieive this task.
Regards,
Karpanai.

I just posted a question about this ( http://forums.adobe.com/thread/844501?tstart=0 ) due to the same problem. Goes for CS4 as well, but only on Mac. I have not observed similar problems in Windows.
My href paths looks like this in the XML file:
file:///filename.jpg
and I've also tried
file://filename.jpg
So after I've located the folder and the first image I would expect InDesign to go on placing images from that folder, just as it does in Windows.
A possible workaround would be to put the XML file to import into the same folder as the images.
Best regards,
Andreas

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