On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 15:42:51 -0700, Andy Tai wrote: > Well, in a related note, are there any solutions to > revision control of common documents (say these in the > Microsoft Word format (now commonly accesible by free > software) or in the new Opendocument format)? If a > revision control system can efficiently allow diff'ing > of such documents in their native formats, and is free > software, that will be extremely useful. However, I > am not sure of any that exists right now.
OpenOffice is able to diff documents. However, it can only show the differences interactively (y marking them and/or walking over them). I am not sure it could be used for reconstructing the other document either. The opendocument format is a zipped archive of some XML and other stuff (images in jpeg or png etc.). An XML diff exists and the rest is just expanding it to a directory for taking the diff. So writing a diffing tool for it should not be all that hard. I am not avare that anyone did though. > --- Thomas Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One way to help advance the cause of distributed > > revision control > > is to facilitate a greater number of applications > > that can make good > > use of it. In that direction: > > > > Andy Tai, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Free Software: the software by the people, of the people and for the people! > Develop! Share! Enhance! Enjoy! > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnu-arch-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users > > GNU arch home page: > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/ > -- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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