Re: [office-collab] Some thoughts on Change Tracking

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <andreas.guelzow@concordia.ab.ca>]

On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 18:12 -0600, monkeyiq wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 23:53 +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
> > monkeyiq wrote about ECT:
> > >   I find this an extremely critical issue has it means that users of
> > > change tracking are relying on various applications to imply changes
> > > rather than being told directly and explicitly what has changed. 
> > > 
> > Hi Ben,
> > 
> > well the same applies to GCT. The very fact that it needs
> > annotations is testament to this issue. I maintain that GCT markup,
> > while being a nice idea on the xml level, fails my requirements as
> > an implementer of a non-xml internal data model application.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> 
> Perhaps we are looking at different aspects here. I am referring to
> example like the "Edit Image/Shape/Chart" from the ECT (pp17). In order
> for an application to tell you that the image file name changed from
> Image1.jpg to Image2.jpg it will have to do a diff on the 
> 
> text:tracked-changes/
>   text:changed-region@text:id="1"/
>     text:deletion ct:id="1"/
>        draw:frame
> And the inline draw:frame for
> text:change-start text:change-id="1" ct:sub-id="2"
> 
> In the GCT this would be explicit in an ac:change attribute. No need to
> perform any analysis to see that the xlink:href was Image1.jpg in the
> last revision.

But changing the name of the image file in the zip package is _not_ a
change to the document. The image file names are just internal
references to find the appropriate image or chart description. 

Andreas   
> 


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Andreas J. Guelzow, PhD, FTICA
Concordia University College of Alberta

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