FW: INS, DEL and Collaborative Document Design

I have looked at this. I agree with you that <INS> and <DEL> need to be 
expanded to be useful for document management. Attributes for author, 
version, and time should be added.

<INS Author="Joe Brown" ver=1.1 Time="2:00am 12\4\95">This is inserted 
text</INS>

An attribute also needs to be added to the body tag to show that a document 
is protected for revisions. This would inform the editor that any text added 
to or removed from the document should be marked as revisions.

<BODY protect="revisions">

Styles could be used to tell the browser how to display added and deleted 
text. 

Susan Putnam
SusanPut@Microsoft.com
Microsoft Corporation

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From: 	www-html@w3.org[SMTP:www-html@w3.org]
Sent: 	Monday, December 04, 1995 5:46 PM
To: 	www-html@w3.org
Subject: 	INS, DEL and Collaborative Document Design


I am planning a project to look at collaborative HTML document 
development via the Web. I am thinking of using the proposed 
HTML 3 elements INS and DEL to delineate the changes associated 
with different versions or a document, with appropriate 
attributes to reflect authorship, version numbers and so on. 
This is because I need this information at the client side, 
to allow toggling between different versions and so that much
of the document management intelligence can be built into 
the client agent. But, I don't want to waste time 
repeating what someone else may have already done, or waste 
time on what has already been shown to be a *Bad Idea*. 

Has anyone looked at integrating this type of functionality
into HTML or other markup languages?

Ian
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Dr. Ian Graham ........................... igraham@hprc.utoronto.ca
Information Commons                        Tel: 416-978-4548
University of Toronto                      Fax: 416-978-6110

Received on Thursday, 7 December 1995 12:35:39 UTC