If i am not mistaken cvs has a configuration option for internal filtering using cvswrappers though i am not sure it works. maybe you can take, for example, some script to convert doc to html before filtering. if thats not satisfactory: concerning your doubting, there is a tool called OpenOffice that can read docs, and also abiword. i.e: you can take the mechanism of one of them to convert doc to some xml representation and work on the file from there. from now on they would be text diffed. or just mass convert using OpenOffice(i understand you can do that) all the doc files to xml format and work only on xml. just to prove that OSS can deliver the goods if you let it.
There are many non OSS software out there that can do that, and probably also freeWares closed source that can do the same on windows using word as a proccessor if its already installed. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gil Freund > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 12:05 AM > Cc: Linux-IL > Subject: Re: Document managment and workflow > > > Lior Kaplan wrote: > > > Maybe http://subversion.tigris.org/ ? > > Looks really nice, but is a source code management system (in general) > as a document management system? Considering that many documents (MS > Office files, PDF and Images) are in binary format, wouldn't that create > an unnecessary load in diffing files? > > Also, CVS (and subversion) seem very good at conflict handling. While > this would be a real neat function of a document management system, I > doubt that a useful OSS solution exists that can handle propriety binary > formats (such as word). > > We could, for the sake of argument, use RTF, but this format is bloated, > and is only slightly more open then word DOCs. > > > > > I'm not sure it answers all you requests. > > > > You may also want to check this: http://horde.org/chora/ > > > > Regards, > > > > Lior Kaplan > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.Guides.co.il > > > > Come to write at the forums: http://www.guides.co.il/forums > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Gil Freund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Yishay Mor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Linux-IL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:25 PM > > Subject: Re: Document managment and workflow > > > > > > > >>Yishay Mor wrote: > >> > >> > >>>wow. not that I have any ideas (other than CVS), but just out of > >>>curiosity, what is this for? > >> > >>CVS would be nice if I could get people to use normal editors with > >>normal formats (read *ML) > >> > >>Mainly for myself, and some startups I work with. > >> > >> > >>>If you don't find anything existing, I would consider developing it over > >>>Zope / Plone. > >> > >>Thats content management. Different ballgame. > >> > >>>- Yishay > >>> > >>>Gil Freund wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Hi, > >>>> > >>>>I am looking for the following type of system (or components thereof) > >>>>to run on a Linux or BSD server: > >>>> > >>>>1. Document library > >>>> a. check in / check out > >>>> b. versions > >>>> c. bibliographic data import from sources such as pubmed > >>>>2. Workflow > >>>> a. document revision cycle > >>>> b. LDAP user identification / authentication > >>>> > >>>>Preferably on Apache/PHP/MySQL. > >>>> > >>>>Pointers to any system of this type (or part thereof) welcome. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >>-- > >>========================================= > >>Gil Freund Sysnet consulting > >>----------------------------------------- > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sysnet.co.il > >>voice: +972-52-676906 Fax: +972-8-9356026 > >>========================================= > >> > >> > >>================================================================= > >>To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > >>the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > >>echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > -- > ========================================= > Gil Freund Sysnet consulting > ----------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sysnet.co.il > voice: +972-52-676906 Fax: +972-8-9356026 > ========================================= > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
