New Members by ODF improvements

Dear TC members,

    

    allow me to send you the reference of the latest draft of the
    change-tracking specification (I will upload it as soon the OASIS
    server are back running).

    The reason to sent to the TC  is that I like to point out two
    additional new possibilities for ODF applications which were often
    unnoticed in the past.

    My hope and aim is that we could try to win new TC members from
    companies of the Real-Time collaboration area.

    

    Although we only started to extend the feature set of the existing
    ODF XML change-tracking, we more or less incidentally enabled the
    new possibilities of 

    
      
Automated ODF regression testing

        Instead of just loading and saving a test document (which
        unchanged always should semantically be the same), we may now
        load a test document, apply defined changes and check the XML
        for changes to proof the ability of a feature. To be able to
        automate the load, save and applying of operations (or undo of a
        stored delete change) would be required. This would save years
        of manual testing and increase the overall ODF application
        quality.  

      

      
Real-Time collaboration (the data perspective) 

        The changes of editors in an ODF application can be distributed
        by the operations defined for change-tracking. Even a mapping
        between dialects of operations is possible. 

        Unfortunately it is unlikely that ODF applications will be able
        to cover only those changes for collaborate that they are
        covering for change-tracking.

      

    
    For the basics you may read in the beginning the overview and
    concept of the referenced draft attached.

    

    Looking forward to discuss further details these abilities on the
    change-tracking call next week (and to give an update on the next
    ODF TC call).

    

    Best regards,

    Svante

    

    

  

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