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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Versioning
> I have a question about versioning of DocBook documents. > Some Background Info: > I have a master copy of government legislation (called an Act) in DocBook format. Now the > guvment makes amendments to the Act (An amendment is a textual change to the original Act > - could be Addition, Removal or Modification of text). What I am required to do is > supply a consolidated act (i.e The Original Act + all amendments) and also supply a means > by which users can see the Act at a point in time. > > It appears to be a similar problem to that of software version management. > That's quite right. > Questions: > Does DocBook have any facility to manage this type of versioning? > Does anyone know of any tools that can be integrated into a current browser based > application to solve this problem? > Does anyone have any idea of the best way to solve this problem? Perhaps you could use the 'role' attribute for this purpose, but you'll probably end up duplicating parts of the text. I'd suggest a version management tool like CVS (http://www.cvshome.org/). You could tag every version and check out the different versions into different files / directories to create the documents from. Regards Gisbert Amm
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