Well, gone anyway.  I just successfully updated from the most recent
nodediff with no problems.  My guess is the previous update cleared
whatever had it convinced there was a missing diff in the chain from
nodelist to current diff, even when this did not exist, but without any
idea of how xlaxdiff works in the first place....

Sigh... maybe I should just go check the Standards page and write my own....  

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