Change tracking and collaboration, are they different?

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Greetings!

In prior discussions we have treated (assumed?), that change tracking
for a single author and collaboration between multiple authors, are
distinct sets of requirements.

After thinking about it for a while, I'm no longer sure that is the case.

Take the case of a single author, who is writing and over the course of
weeks, perhaps months, they enter changes/edits to a document, that
which, if all applied, produce conflicting XML trees within the document.

As changes are accepted/rejected, some changes may become impossible (an
insertion into an entirely deleted paragraph) or the location has
changed (an insertion into a moved list), etc.


Is that really different from multiple authors who produce the same
edits, except for coordination of their displays?

Being mindful that the format need only capture proposed changes
faithfully, it is up to an application to process changes and to apply
them (or not) as requested.

Yes?

Hope everyone is at the start of a great week!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
patrick@durusau.net
Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)

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