http://www.filesystems.org/project-unionfs.html
Also: I thought OOo's docbook has some sense of versioning within the format, I'm prolly wrong tho :)
One further idea, a little out there: you could setup an OOo working environment which would copy part or all of your document to a local database, each time you save it, and then you could have a system external to OOo pull from that DB and do what you like with an external VCS. You could of course throw the file in as a zipped blob or XML, etc, and also put in time/date, total #chars/words/etc, and then script up the decompilation of minimized differences between the versions.
And to further refer to zimbra, I'd like to mention Zimlets:
http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Zimlets
http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=ZimletUtil
neato :)
Ben
On 6/1/06, Jason LaPier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
While we're on the subject of repositories - I was thinking about this last
night:
Does anyone know of a recommended path for using subversion to keep track of
actual documents (ie non-code)? I've heard of some people using XML-based
documents for this sort of thing, where they can check-in and check-out say
(for example) chapters in a book. The you have a revision history for actual
documentation, much like you'd have for code. I know the OpenDocument format
is XML based, but when OpenOffice saves an OD file, it's actually a zip file
containing several XML files in a couple of directories. I'm figuring it
would be possible so script the unzipping of the file as part of the
check-in to a repository (and re-zip on check-out - ugh), but when I think
about all that, it seems like you'd get too much extra stuff if you ever
wanted to compare revisions, and it may make little sense.
Another option is to use DocBook XML, but I don't know much about it (and
seems to leave me with very little of the style/formatting of my original
OpenDoc document).
Right now, I'm experimenting with using HTML - written as a normal document
in OpenOffice writer, but saved as HTML, since _most_ formatting is
consistant, and I know when I look at diffs between versions it will be a
little more human-readable (thankfully OpenOffice's HTML is a lot cleaner
than MS Word's).
Any thoughts?
Jason LaPier
Network Manager
TACS / WRRC / NPSO
University of Oregon
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