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From ISO Quality Services Ltd.
Helping to represent even the most complex change
The delta format is not designed as a general delta format for any XML, but rather one that is suitable for document editing. The main implication of this is that the content (typically text) takes priority over the structure (typically paragraphs, tables, text decoration) in terms of changes. An editor does not want to see change to content when he has only changed the structure or styling.
Even an atomic change should have a simple, intuitive, and localised representation within a document. Can this be achieved for representing change for OpenDocument?
Read this technical paper to:
- Review the additional markup needed for representing change in an easy manner.
- Review what is meant by ‘atomic change’ and the importance of representing these changes.
- Explore examples of how these changes would look represented within real XML.
Representing Changes in Open Document Format
Technical Paper
Sponsored by NLnet on behalf of the OpenDoc Society, this paper describes a change tracking format developed for OpenDocument. The format described provides a way of representing successive changes or edits to an XML document, typically, in one or more editing sessions.
“A single action by an editor may generate changes in a number of different places in the document. For example, a global change or ‘replace all’ will generate changes throughout a document, or deleting a column in a table will generate several disjoint changes in the underlying XML representation.”
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