[odf-discuss] ODF Document Differencing Tool

[Damon Anderson]

I agree, there are difficulties. Still it seems to me that the differencing
could be done at the XML level which would simply specify the area of the
document that has changed, then the individual wanting to compare the
documents could choose to view the differences either as XML source, or as
displayed by a rendering engine with the XML differencing providing the
markers to display where changes have occurred in the rendered document. 

Obviously OpenOffice has succeeded in creating a basic differencing tool,
but has failed on usability and functions of the tool. I for one would be
very interested in seeing someone besides Sun try to tackle this issue.

-Damon

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Subject: Re: [odf-discuss] ODF Document Differencing Tool

Hi Damon,

On Wed, 2006-15-11 at 11:25 +0700, Damon Anderson wrote:
> Open Office has a rather weak document differencing tool. Are there 
> any other ODF tools out there, or any in the works? Extremely 
> important for dealing with multiple document versions.

I'm not aware of anyone working on an alternate tool. Taking the difference
of two documents is not an easy problem, and XML makes it less easy.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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