[Gnu-arch-users] Re: revision control for documents (was plug-in foo)

[Thomas Zander]

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On Monday 22 December 2003 19:22, Tom Lord wrote:
>     >> The question is whether they will produce (a) valid and then (b)
>     >> sane OO documents given valid and sane OO document inputs.
>     >
>     > If not; then the Schema is needed to do so which will make sure
>     > it is. But I doubt it will be needed.
>
> I'm really puzzled, for multiple reasons, why you think that "Schema"
> are in any way relevent here or that they solve any problem.  You're
> just reinforcing my feeling that W3C productions have long since
> degenerated into non-productive buzzword slingling and are largely to
> blame for the stalling of the industry known as the burst of the .com
> bubble (and worse problems).
....
>     > Besides; the proposal was to make the merge-conflicts be handled
>     > by OOo in a specific 'merge' widget that converts the DOM domain
>     > objects to viewable changes so the user can select the revision
>     > (A, B, A and B, B and A) that should be used in the resulting
>     > document.
>
> I have little idea what you might be talking about.  "widget"?  "DOM
> domain objects"?
>
> This is like saying: "Mr. Ford!  Exciting News!  I have figured out
> how we can mass-produce your model T.   It's quite simple, really:  we
> need only build a machine whose gears and levers transform raw
> materials into automobiles.   Gears and levers are well understood
> technology so I am sure that your mechanics will have little
> difficulty assembling this machine."


Thank you Tom; this email put a smile back on my face; quite funny :-)

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Thomas Zander
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