editing XML definitions and creating optional comments

[completeRookie]

I use some software that generates XML files with the file extension of "xml"

I know that very early in the generated files, there are three lines that I do not care about and I'd like to ignore these lines (if present) whenever comparing.

the first line says
<Export generator="Cache" version="22" zv="Cache for Windows (x86-32) 2009.1.3 (Build 704)" ts="2010-05-18 07:14:00">
and the section in red changes all the time.

the next line
<TimeChanged>61583,39304.928852</TimeChanged>
and once again.
<TimeCreated>61192,45852.879916</TimeCreated>

so the question is, can I tell ExamDiff-pro to ignore comparing any of these lines (if present)

I've tried to be clever, and create another filetype (of xml) but of course, it complains its a pre-defined extension,
I've tried turning off the XML extension, but still no go

so the question of course, can I create any set of rules that ignores these three lines any time they occur

Your help would be appreciated.

[psguru]

You can turn off the XML plug-in (Options | Plug-ins) and ignore lines matching the following regular expression (Options | Compare):

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Export generator|TimeChanged|TimeCreated

Of course, this regex can be tweaked to your needs.

[completeRookie]

thanks for the clues where I change the options,
for those that need to do a similar job, I chose to use options - "lines matching regular expression" and inserted the following code.

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^<TimeChanged\b[^>]*>(.*?)</TimeChanged>|^<TimeCreated\b[^>]*>(.*?)</TimeCreated>|^<Export generator(.*?)>

worked absolutely fine, brilliant programme