Terminology question

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

An easy question for a Friday. ;-)

When the phrase "cached state" is used in the ECT documents, does that 
mean prior tracked changes?

That is any document as an initial state when change tracking begins.

I may open the document with change tracking on or turn change tracking 
on after editing the document for some time, or start and stop change 
tracking, or even open a document with previous session changes tracked 
in it.

Without commenting on how implementations may choose to implement change 
tracking internally, I am thinking that the state of the document is 
always measured at the point a change is being made, with change 
tracking on.

That is every change is performed against the current state of the 
document with no reference to prior states.

Implementations could treat some changes as "reversions" to a prior 
state if they wish but that would not be reflected in the change 
tracking as defined by ODF.

Hope everyone is looking forward to a great weekend!

Patrick

PS: Next CT post will be this coming Monday.


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Patrick Durusau
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Former Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)

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