[Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?

[michael josenhans]

Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:49:00AM +0100, Thomas Zander wrote:
>
> > Since OOo will save some 5 different XML streams inside a zip file its 
> > quite easy to do revision management on XML only streams once you have a 
> > XMLDiff application in place. (which should be first priority)
>
>
> Remember: diff is easy, it's a variation on the LCS problem. patch is
> harder, because you're supposed to take advantage of context (it's
> pretty stupid to write a patch tool for an unordered list that
> emulates patch(1) rather than re-ordering the list as needed, for
> example).

Therefore the patch tools should be supplied with additional ordering 
information. Either inside the DTD (hidden inside comments) or outside 
(File reference to ordering description file hidden in comment of the 
XML or as additional information supplied to the patch tool by the user).

In order to support branch conflict resolution, it would be useful to 
get ordering information into the next generation of the XML DTD-Standard.

Michael