Re: [docbook-tc] Re: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes:16 January 2008

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Keith Fahlgren wrote:
> On 1/25/08 1:50 PM, Norman Walsh wrote:
>> | Is 'changed' an insert or a delete?
>>
>> It's neither. Or both. It just means that the content has changed.
>>
>> If your real concern is the amount of markup, I think I'd be inclined to
>> follow Keith's lead and invent your own local customization. Then translate
>> that into "proper" revisionflag markup.
> 
> Additionally, I'd be delighted to figure out how in the world people are going
> to have this markup created given a.xml b.xml. Is there anything other than
> DeltaXML[1]?

http://nwalsh.com/java/diffmk/

But to be honest the most elegant solution for revision tracking is
using markup language with support for overlapping markup as users quite
often do edits that span tag boundaries. (Un)fortunately XML is not yet
there ;-D

			Jirka

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