RE: [dita] On the DITAVAL file

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RE: [dita] On the DITAVAL file
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Subject: RE: [dita] On the DITAVAL file

From: "Chris Wong" <>

To: "Jennifer Linton" <>,"DITA-TC \(E-mail\)" <>

Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:00:36 -0500

Something that I never really understood is the 
usefulness of @rev and the corresponding revprops element in DITAVAL. 
Traditional versioning (CVS/ClearCase/Subversion/etc) operates at the file 
level, which means we do version diffs at the topic level at best. Having 
revision markers down to the phrase level always seemed unmanageable to me: most 
versioning software would not support that. We just end up using using 
versioning software to get 2 revisions of a DITA file (topic) and diffing those 
with an XML differ to generate revision markup.

 

How 
do you (and IBM) use @rev/revprops?

 

Chris