Dear M. Shafie,
We plan to deploy release 5.1.1 of XXE for all our authors in order to
benefit from its compare tool.
We would like to report one issue we have with it -- which seems easy to
fix --; this issue is a blocker right now for this deployment; here it is:
*Context: *In our workflow, it may occasionally happen that DocBook
files are modified by external XSL transformations, to account for
global changes.
*The Issue:* In this situation, XMLmind complains that it cannot
reactivate the track changes when we reopen the file.
*We perfectly understand the reason for this* and it is not a problem
for us.
The problem however, is that there seems to be no
way to reactivate it from XMLmind; the only way (the only we have found)
is to manually edit the file under a text editor and remove the trailing
processing instruction. This is something we cannot ask our authors to do.
Could we suggest to retain the warning dialog (with an option not to
show it again...), but instead of leaving the file in this state, to
remove the corrupted processing instruction and recreate it from the
actual content of the file, thus reactivating the changes from scratch ?
This would completely solve the issue for us.
Many thanks for your help or suggestion if you have missed something.
Best regards.
Philippe.
PS: Below a suggestion for improving command-line access to the XXE
compare tool.
*One Suggestion:*
We discussed about the compare tool in XXE versus the integration of a
generic XML diff engine for integration with a SCM system; finally, we
agree that the solution you have chosen is very effective.
An additional command-line option, e.g. "-cmp", "-diff", etc... would
make it even more efficient when XXE is launched on two files (typically
a diff command from a SCM system between two revisions of the same XML
file...).
E.g. xxe -diff xml1 xml2 Would open both files (as now), and also
activate the compare tool (if possible being given the 2 files), thus
providing a powerful XML comparison tool, directly callable from SCM
client windows...
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