On 01/12/2015 08:38 AM, Niels Grundtvig Nielsen wrote:
Well, you're right there – the Compare tool seems to do an excellent job
of identifying changes between files. The only snag is, that's not what
I need to do at the moment: I need to use the out-of-the-DITA-box status
attribute to apply different styles to WebHelp (and possibly pdf) output.
We are aware of this need, which is not an uncommon one.
I suspect this is going to mean rolling my sleeves up and trying to get
somewhere with XSLT :-}
There are two problems here:
1) Marking modified elements using the DITA status attribute. I don't
see how this problem can be solved simply.
A future version of the Compare tool could be used to automatically mark
modified elements using the DITA status attribute. However only new and
modified elements could be marked this way, not deleted elements. This
makes this feature not really useful.
2) Correctly rendering DITA elements bearing the status attribute by
slightly modifying the XSLT stylesheets. This problem should be quite
simple to solve.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Hussein Shafie <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 01/05/2015 10:36 AM, Niels Grundtvig Nielsen wrote:
Getting into the swing of things using DITA for deliverables
here, and
now we've reached the stage where the first document needs an upate.
This prompts the question "what do you suggest for implementing
track
changes": should I use <ph> elements with attributes and tweak the
stylesheet so I can mark added and deleted text,
Personally, I would never do this given the fact we have the Compare
tool:
http://www.xmlmind.com/__xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/__comparePane_primer.html
<http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/comparePane_primer.html>
or is there some more elegant approach?
Tutorial (including a screencast):
"Reviewing changes using the Compare tool" --
http://www.xmlmind.com/__xmleditor/_tutorial/review___changes/index.html
<http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/review_changes/index.html>
OK, it's not change tracking per se (à la MS-Word), but it
implements a similar functionality and it works flawlessly whatever
the number and the complexity of the changes. I mean the author of a
document will never miss a change made by a reviewer.
So my advice is: please give this feature a *serious* try. It will
do the job and you'll like it.
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