Re: Change Bars DTDlet

weber@yoyo.eitech.com (Jay C. Weber)

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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 93 04:16:23 PDT
From: weber@yoyo.eitech.com (Jay C. Weber)
Message-id: <9308101116.AA04409@yoyo>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch, terry@ora.com
Subject: Re: Change Bars DTDlet
Status: RO


> From: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
> 
> Jay Weber's idea of storing diffs outside the changed document
> is interesting, but I think we want to be able to represent
> versions within a document, too.

You're right, ideally we'd have both mechanisms and ways of moving
between them.  I'd been thinking of diff-mergining as a browser task,
but if we have an intrinsic diff representation then it can be a
server task as well (or instead).  That is, the URL

  http://eitech.com/mydoc.html,1

could fetch an original document,

  http://eitech.com/mydoc.html,2

could fetch the next version (version 1 plus some diffs transparently
merged by the server), and

  http://eitech.com/mydoc.html,1,2

could fetch the next version with the diffs merged in a way that
identifies them.

Jay
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