Dishaa wrote:
>
> I was hoping to see if there are any "add-ons" to XXE that may make the
> review mode more effective. Are you aware of any?
No, there is no such add-on.
> On the other hand, I did get to check out XXE Pro edition. There is an
> option available to insert a comment. This works well for the reviewer
> who usually enters additional inputs or comments. However, the author
> who updates these inputs also needs to "highlight" this updated portion,
> so that the reviewer does not spend time checking through the entire
> document during the following iteration.
>
> For this I felt selecting the updated portion and choosing a element
> like "remark" can render the text in a different color. But the problem
> is that this can't be changed back to "para" element.
I'm not sure that using comments or "remark" elements is a good way to
track changes.
A "remark" element is an ``inline'' element (i.e. like "emphasis"). It
cannot be converted to a "para" because these tow elements have
incompatible content models.
You can easily wrap a mix of plain text and ``inline'' elements to a
"remark" element and then unwrap these to restore the original state.
DocBook also has a couple of attribute ("revision", "revisionflag", etc)
which may be used to mark changes. However, elements having these
attributes are not properly styled (by pure laziness, because there is
no technical problems).
> Do you have any pointers on how this can be done? I hope i have been
> clear in explaining the query. Let me know if you need any further
> clarifications.
It is certainly possible to implement a (very) crude change tracking
system using a few macros and/or simple commands written in Java[tm] but:
[1] Explaining how to do this is out of the scope of this mailing list.
[2] I'm not sure your users will be happy with such a crude system.
