staging content

[Seth Hodgson]

Greetings,   I'm trying to build a content staging system for versioned content objects that would allow for edits to an existing object without effecting the objects version history unless the edits were approved by an administrator. To do this, within my edit handler I am generating a new co with matching properties (including the label which is unique per co) and setting it's active and archived flags to false. This is the object that is used to store edits to the corresponding live co (matching labels). Upon approval of the edit, a new version of the true content object is created and the live version is updated with the edited content - lastly, the edit co is deleted.   Is there a simpler way to go about this? Best Regards, Seth