> We really do need a tool, the like of which I was using 40 years ago
> when writing code, that allows patches to be applied independently

that's what pull requests (or gerrit) are about.

> and
> temporarily to see what it then looks like and if agreed that it looks
> good, incorporating them permanently into the source (XML).  Ideally
> such a tool would reverse engineer the amended text into XML patches as
> well - text is so much easier to work with than XML (or any other markup
> language).

try writing the draft in markdown and using Miek Gieben's or my tool 
(kramdown-rfc2629) to convert into XML.

it is so much easier to collaborate in markdown...

Grüße, Carsten

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