Re: [office-collab] GCT-Issue-2 (was GCT Issues Wiki page)

[Robin LaFontaine <robin.lafontaine@deltaxml.com>]

I am worried by your comment

"a document has many ODF xml representations"

because if the same document has many representations it is difficult to say when two documents are 'equal' or the same document. If we do not know when they are the same we cannot say what has changed.

I am making the assumption that if the XML representation of two documents is different then the documents are different. Of course some differences (e.g. text content) are more important that others (e.g. automatic styles). If this basic assumption is wrong then perhaps we need to define a canonical form. Or is there some other way forward?

Robin

On 26/08/2011 19:46, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:

I had obviously read that message before. Unfortunately we do not even
seem to agree on the basic concepts. For me a document has many ODF xml
representations and changing between those representations does not
represent a document change, so while GCT may be well suited to for
recording changes in the representation I fail to see how it can be used
successfully to recognize changes to the document itself.  

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