On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Hussein Shafie <hussein at xmlmind.com> wrote: >> For instance, support for a >> version control system would be a bare minimum (with external diff), >> but some sort of visible change tracking would be better, > > We are currently working on it. Hopefully we'll make major features > announcements in 2010.
That's good to hear, though I would STRONGLY encourage you to test with real-world authors and editors, since many attempts I've seen don't really mesh with actual publishing processes. >> and best of all would be support for some sort of simultaneous real-time >> (EtherPad, soon to be open-source) or near-time (Google Docs) >> collaborative editing environment. > > We are clearly not taking this approach. XMLmind XML Editor, being a > structured document editor, allows several authors to work on the same > document at the same time provided that [1] the document is modular > (e.g. XInclude, DITA conref) [2] authors are not working on the same > module/part at the same time. That's a little too bad, since we're finding that this is the most promising direction for author/editor collaboration. It's not there yet, but when it works, it's brilliant. cheers... -Adam
