versioning tools

From: Torsten Lenk (lenk@tu-harburg.de)
Date: Tue, Aug 01 2000

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    Message-ID: <3986A6CE.6D199915@tu-harburg.de>
    Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 12:30:38 +0200
    From: Torsten Lenk <lenk@tu-harburg.de>
    To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
    Subject: versioning tools
    
    Dear ng,
    
    I have been a highly interested follower of the exchange for the past
    months and unfortunately I came to the conclusion that the topic I am
    working on is related, but not exactly covered in ietf.
    
    Nevertheless I take the chance to hopefully receive some support, if only
    getting some hints for further research.
    
    I am working on a project creating some tools to support the versioning
    of semi-structured documents mainly meant for developing documents in
    multi-author environments. So far so good.
    
    One idea is now to take advantage of the structures of the documents by
    using the same structures for storing the differences (deltas) to have a
    more readable evolution (the changes in what order, why, by whom, etc.)
    of the creation of the document. This could lead to better
    user-friendliness, consistency and hopefully a better
    development-mangement.
    
    I am aware that this is the "other side", but did anybody of you hear
    about somebody working on differencing of semi-structured data in a way
    keeping the structures consistent and not use any line-based (or
    derivatives like LCS algorithms)? Our first approaches are very slow, but
    show nicely that not everybody will have to cope with the semantics of
    RCS or SCCS for all time.
    
    I hope you are not offended by me using this plattform, even though the
    topic is not strictly agenda-related, but I would be extra-ordinarly
    interested in any kind of comments or probably information about existing
    projects or even fully developed tools in this area.
    
    Thank you very much in advance,
    
    Torsten Lenk