Re: [xml-dev] revision control for xml, was: Re: [xml-dev] Working with

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2006-10-16 09:03 +0200, bryan rasmussen wrote:
>So, are there any CVS systems that are especially good for tracking
>changes in xml documents?

That depends ... I use CVS to track the changes 
in my XML documents because the documents are 
simple text, but it is not done in a way that 
marks up the document with the changes that can 
then be processed downstream by an XML-based process.  I just use diff.

Is that the nature of your question, a CVS system 
that embeds change tracking information in an XML 
document?   I personally haven't heard of such a system.

And which "track changes vocabulary" would such a 
system use ... is there a particular one you would anticipate using?

I wonder of Robin can comment on DeltaXML ... 
http://www.deltaxml.com ... I remember hearing 
that that tool marks the differences in XML 
documents, and it might do so with change markup 
in the documents themselves.  Perhaps it has an 
integration with CVS.  I don't know which "track 
changes vocabulary" it might be using.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken


>Cheers,
>Bryan Rasmussen
>
>On 10/10/06, Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
>>Jonathan Robie wrote:
>>
>> > I don't see a way around this unless I type each change back into the
>> > original Docbook document. This seems like an inherent problem, but is
>> > there some smart trick I'm missing?
>>
>>Checking DocBook into a centralized source repository such as Subversion
>>or CVS. Track changes is a poor man's revision control system.


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