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[Dennis Hamilton]

I have regularly rejected/accepted changes out of order in OpenOffice.org. In fact, you can reject a deletion and accept the insertion that was made in its place. (Obviously, "in its place" is not remembered in the current implementation nor the specification.) The two chunks of material then remain side-by-side in the way they were presented as a tracked deletion and tracked insertion. The cases of one change being imbedded in another is odd except for moves (which are not explicitly provided for in ODF 1.2 change tracking) where one does need to be more clever. But not very much more clever. I am guessing but it might only be movement that has this property of being reversible with later changes *that don't cross the boundary between moved-in and pre-existing* kept intact. If there can be a cross-over that edit breaks hierarchy in this manner, something trickier needs to happen. In other cases, the right thing happens because it has to. - Dennis