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Subject: Re: [office-collab] Compromise on change-tracking proposals
Svante Schubert wrote: > After a thorough analysis of the ongoing discussion regarding > change-tracking (CT), I would like to suggest a compromise between > the two existing proposals. > Hi Svante, all, first off, I like your fresh view on this, and especially the broader scope of collaboration you address. Please allow me a few comments inline. > 3. The changes are moved out of the "content.xml" and "styles.xml" into > an "undo.xml" file. This is to allow applications to load either the > ODF content or the changes. > This is nice in and of itself. It makes it trivial for e.g. viewing applications to ignore document history, and it conveniently abstracts away change tracking from any specific rendering of a document to odf. It's also quite terse. :) > The ODF change-events will be defined in the ODF specification, > especially including the mapping to the ODF XML change (and vice > versa) via GCT. > If that yields a good, descriptive way to document change event semantics, sure. Though it's not an end in itself, and I see the same ambiguity problems for complex change events, as with GCT in general. At the very least, I'd refuse mandating detailed infoset changes, unless we're sure ODF is non-ambiguous in the document feature at hand. > 1. Changes made in real-time collaboration scenarios can use the same > change-events as specified for change-tracking. > A clear winner for me. I'd actually like to see a few more examples of the more complex use cases from http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/ChangeTrackingUseCases - especially those where one of the current contestants show issues. I think that would help us all to better appreciate your proposal. Cheers, -- Thorsten Behrens Novell GmbH, Nördlicher Zubringer 9-11, 40470 Düsseldorf; GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 21108 (AG Düsseldorf)
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