I have been asked to include the design document and RelaxNG, which are
attached.
Robin
Robin LaFontaine wrote:
> Proposal to improve change tracking in ODF
>
> The existing ODF track change mechanism is limited in its scope and some
> of its semantics are not well defined. Limitations (based on OOo
> implementation) include:
> - insert/delete/modify of format or style changes
> - table cell/row/column insert/delete
> - image insert/delete/modify
> - add/delete frames (obect, image, text frame)
>
> We were asked to look at these issues and the attached document lists
> the requirements that were identified for an improved tracked changes
> representation in ODF, and work done to propose a solution. The overall
> objective was to develop a more generic approach which would widen the
> selection of ODF elements and attributes where changes can be tracked.
> This will provide improved support for applications needing to represent
> changes.
>
> The proposal includes a RelaxNG grammar for a track change format, which
> can work either as a complementary grammar to ODF or integrated with it
> (and a partial integration with CD05 is included). Also include are:
> - a Schematron checker for a document with tracked changes,
> - over 50 examples of how it would work for specific changes
> (hand-crafted but checked against Schematron and the grammar),
> - XSLT code to extract the latest version of a document from a
> tracked-change document,
> - XSLT code to roll-back the latest change
>
> This is too large to attach to this email so a copy of the documentation
> of the format and all the supporting code can be downloaded here:
> http://www.deltaxml.com/library/articles-and-papers.html
>
> We would like the technical committee to consider this approach and
> adopting it as a complementary grammar and/or integrated with ODF
> RelaxNG (where they are the experts and will do a better job than we are
> able to do!).
>
> We hope this will prove useful in the development of ODF.
>
> Best regards,
> Robin
>
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