RE: Fwd: A sort of synthesis

I think the injection of externally-held change-tracking is an interesting situation.  

Processors that attempt to merge the information in some way will have to be resilient with respect to situations where the subject XML document is not consistent with the one the changes were introduced for.  

It seems to me that the key issue is how the external material specifies where the tracked changes apply in the subject XML document.  Perhaps the closest highly-rigorous case is external application of XML Digital signatures to (parts of) an XML document.  

Verrrry Interrrresting.

 - Dennis

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From: Robin LaFontaine [mailto:robin.lafontaine@deltaxml.com] 
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Subject: Re: Fwd: A sort of synthesis

+1 also for George, but there are use cases where external is useful, as Claudius says. This view was expressed too when we presented the paper in Prague. 

I am hoping we can get the best of both worlds by having both in-line and external representations and a standard transformation between them. As George says, the in-line is more 'robust' and should probably be the normative version, but we can discuss how to do that.

Robin
On 28/02/2013 17:27, Casey Jordan wrote:


 +1 George. This is a very important part of interoperability since there are so many "XML editors". As you know, many companies have groups using several tools on one content set. 


 On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:12 AM, George Cristian Bina <george@oxygenxml.com> wrote:
 

  Just a comment on this: 


  On 2/28/13 4:40 PM, Claudius Teodorescu wrote:
  

   4. rendering of changes, by using a light syntax (PIs, for instance);
   such syntax is to be used for rendering only, thus not over-loading the
   XML document itself;
   


  In oXygen's case, and I guess also in other XML tools, the PIs are not a syntax for rendering the changes, it is only a serialization format. Once the document is loaded the PIs are removed from the document and kept in an in-memory structure that is modified by the user actions and then when the document is saved the new current change tracking structure is serialized as PIs.
  There should not me a main issue if changes are stored out of band, in an external storage and loaded from there. However, having them separate from the document may easily result in inconsistent information. The main advantage with having them serialized directly in the document is that if some additional changes are performed with a tool that does not record changes on that document then the PIs will move as well so they will stay next to the content they mark as modified.
  
  Best Regards,
  George
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  George Cristian Bina
  <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
  http://www.oxygenxml.com
  
  




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