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Subject: RE: [dita] On the DITAVAL file
- From: "Chris Wong" <cwong@idiominc.com>
- To: "Jennifer Linton" <jennifer.linton@comtech-serv.com>,"DITA-TC \(E-mail\)" <dita@lists.oasis-open.org>
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:00:36 -0500
Something that I never really understood is the
usefulness of @rev and the corresponding revprops element in DITAVAL.
Traditional versioning (CVS/ClearCase/Subversion/etc) operates at the file
level, which means we do version diffs at the topic level at best. Having
revision markers down to the phrase level always seemed unmanageable to me: most
versioning software would not support that. We just end up using using
versioning software to get 2 revisions of a DITA file (topic) and diffing those
with an XML differ to generate revision markup.
How
do you (and IBM) use @rev/revprops?
Chris
Chris,
I too think that the DITAVAL file as it is with the ability
to do revision marking and flagging. We get a lot of questions from clients who
would like to do that and see the benefit of it. I also would like to use it and
would do so if we can get the transforms in the open toolkit to work correctly
out of the box.
I do see a great need for this functionality
though.
Jen
From: Chris Wong [mailto:cwong@idiominc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:23 AM
To: DITA-TC
(E-mail)
Subject: [dita] On the DITAVAL file
What do we want to
accomplish with the DITAVAL file? I see it as useful for specifying deliverable
content, much like a DITA map, but this is only the filtering part of the file.
When we (Idiom) discussed supporting DITAVAL, it just seemed overengineered when
all people were asking for was conditional text. Nobody was requesting flagging
nor revision marking.
Is anyone using
the revprops part of DITAVAL? Or flagging? These parts determine appearance, not
content. I'm just trying to get a handle on the different applications
of DITAVAL.
Chris
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