Helen and all, At my company, version control stores everything that generated a set of published docs so that the entire doc set could be reproduced exactly, if that ever became necessary. In our case, that consists of the DocBook XML source files, the DocBook XSL version that generated the output plus all its customizations, and all build scripts.
Any intermediate file type that was generated during the doc build, such as FO files, are not stored, on the theory that they can be reconstructed exactly. If you are generating your output using XXE's DocBook > Convert Document menu (or the DITA equivalent), then make sure you keep accurate records, preferably stored alongside the XML files in version control, of the exact XXE version that you used. You probably don't need to archive an installation of XXE itself in version control, or the XSL installed by XXE, but you might archive the installer for the exact version you used so that it can be reinstalled. You might also archive your XXE preferences directory. All that, plus your next question, would allow you to exactly reproduce your docs. >> ... Is there a way to capture just the customizations that I have added using >> 'Change document conversion parameters'? It looks like you can save the current parameter group as a set with a new name, which can then be loaded into another instance of XXE. Click "Parameter Set" to show a menu with Reset, Load, and Save options. From: xmleditor-support-boun...@xmlmind.com [mailto:xmleditor-support-boun...@xmlmind.com] On Behalf Of Helen Pyle Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:42 AM To: xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com Subject: [XXE] (no subject) Hello, I am looking for advice about archiving xml files. These are software documentation, and we are keeping them in SVN with the software itself. Should any of the XSL specs be part of that archive? What is the rationale for deciding one way or the other? Helen
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