Re: [office-collab] Change Tracking and Epochs.

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

I like this idea.  And I'd suggest one additional wrinkle.  Perhaps along 
with document-level revisioning, there is also more granular revisioning 
at the level of a section, or a presentation slide.  This is especially 
interesting for distributed editing tasks where multiple users are editing 
the same document. 

But it isn't clear to me where this information goes:

A) Keep the document XML simple, a projection of a single revision, a 
snapshot if you will.  The complexity of the revision history is stored 
externally, in a database.

B) Store the revisions in the XMK, or at least in the ZIP container.  Make 
it self-contained.

-Rob


monkeyiq <monkeyiq@gmail.com> wrote on 05/16/2011 08:43:37 AM:

> 
>  I'm not sure if this would be desired at the spec level or just left up
> to implementations to piece together as they wish. But at the spec level
> it might be nice to at least be able to explicitly indicate that a
> delta:change-transaction element represents a coalesced revision to
> avoid confusing applications.
>