Re: DOCBOOK: Change Bars

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Stephen Rasku <stephen@tgivan.com> was heard to say:
| Is there any way to generate change bars from a DocBook document?  If 
| not, is there any intention of adding this functionality?

Yes, it can be done either by hand or semi-automatically.

You can use the revisionflag attribute to track changes. If you have
two versions of the document, you can use diffmk
(http://www.sun.com/xml/developers/diffmk/) to automatically add the
revisionflags.

Then process the document with changebars.xsl and you'll get something
like change bars (http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006-review.html).

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

P.S. I have a java version of diffmk that is in some ways better than
the perl version. I'm working on getting it released.

-- 
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Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | which they believe so little and
                                   | which they practice so
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