On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 20:31 +1000, John wrote: > The governing directive is that these snipits be easily edited/updated and > be able to reform as the original documents and be capable of forming new > manuals.
There are a number of content management systems that can do this but the simplest method is probably via the already suggested Alfresco. Alfresco is a document management system. There's a number of handy features such as revision control, document checkout's, access control lists, etc. There is also the ability to have uploaded documents (which can be of any document format) or inline-edited HTML documents - using a WYSIWYG editor. The ability to form manuals later would in this case be reliant upon the original file formats you were using. That's Alfresco at it's simplest, at least. If you are after a content management system that can be edited online and form manuals on the fly, the "collaborative books" feature of Drupal, a php based CMS, is really well suited to online, collaborative document authoring. You can also upload binary files with revision control to Drupal. The appropriate choice would depend on where your focus was. Alfresco is better suited to managing documents of many file types, that are worked on in their programme of origin, whereas Drupal and it's "collaborative books" is better suited content intended to be viewed via a web browser. There are a number of other choices out there too. Hope that helps. -- Craige McWhirter Managing Director McWhirter [consulting] http://mcwhirter.com.au/ - 0415958783
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