Re: [xml-dev] versioning legal documents from many different countries

[Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

Option: Give each document an id / number on entry to your system
and relate that to each document title. Simpler and you have control.

HTH

On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 09:00, bryan rasmussen <rasmussen.bryan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We are building a system that takes legal documents from many nations and organizations on a particular subject matter in, and needs to be able to version them. A coworker has suggested that when an admin puts in a new document they should name it releasedate_correction_titleofdocument.pdf
>
> however it has been my experience that titleofdocument is not going to cut it for automatically versioning these documents because of course not every country uses the same name between versions of a law. Therefore the admin would have to do work on determining what title of document is - does anyone have any experience on this and how usable would you think the releasedate_correction_titleofdocument.pdf would prove to be in real life?
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan Rasmussen



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