Thank you Torben.

I haven't studied OT's much yet.  That's what I needed to know:)

Thanks again,
Jim

On May 18, 4:43 pm, Torben Weis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> wave operates on a tree data structure. You can either insert or remove an
> entire subtree.
> If you have the following markup
>
> <doc><line>Foo</line><line>Bar</line></doc>
>
> and you want to join the two lines, then you must remove both lines (each is
> a sub-tree of <doc>) and insert a new one. This conflicts with others
> editing one of these lines concurrently.
>
> Thus, you must plan your data structure in a way which allows the common
> operations to be represented by inserting or removing complete sub-trees.
>
> Using
>
> <doc><line></line>Foo<line></line>Bar</doc>
>
> does exactly this, because <line></line> is a sub-tree which can now easily
> be removed. Et voila, the two lines are joined.
>
> Hope this helps
> Torben
>
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