Gerd F. wrote:
However our current tool has something that I have not found with your
software : the ability to set up an approval process (including email
notification) for document changes, and this at the level of the
individual data units.
The persons within this approval process can both
state acceptance or not,
In my understanding, this implies that the XML document edited using
XMLmind XML Editor would have "tags" for fully specifying this approval
process. For example, a list of persons with their names and emails and
for each person, may be a check list and/or state indicators.
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It's also important to understand that XMLmind XML Editor is nice to use
when editing standard document types like DITA, DocBook and XHTML only
because we have spent a considerable time *configuring* XMLmind XML
Editor for these standard document types.
If you use a custom DTD or Schema to model your XML data, then you'll
have to create a custom configuration for your custom document type.
This can be implemented by third party developers not related to
XMLmind. See for example, these two contributions:
- "A configuration for creating XLingPaper documents";
- "DTBook Support".
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_usercontrib/index.shtml
The authors of the above custom configurations have used this manual to
learn how to do that:
XMLmind XML Editor - Configuration and Deployment
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/index.html
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provide comments and even propose changes. Is
this possible with your software ?
Unlike most of our competitors, XMLmind XML Editor does not have
"real-time" change tracking à la Microsoft Word.
- XMLmind XML Editor has "remarks". See "Remark menu" in
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/remarkMenu.html
- XMLmind XML Editor can store within the document all changes made to a
document, can save who did these changes and when. (Use comments to
explain the reason for a change.) See "Revisions menu" in
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/revisionsMenu.html
After all reviewers have made changes to the document, the author of the
document may examine all suggested changes and for each change, accept
it or reject it. See "the Compare tool" in
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/comparePane_primer.html
At first sight, this looks very much like change tracking à la Microsoft
Word, but it's not. In fact, XMLmind XML Editor can just compare two
revisions of the same document. Note that by design, this comparison is
flawless; you cannot miss a change, whatever it is.
Please watch this tutorial to see these two features at work:
"Reviewing changes using the Compare tool"
Text: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/review_changes/index.html
Video:
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/review_changes/video/review_changes.html
*Strongly* *recommended*, please evaluate these two features yourself by
download our Personal Edition:
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/download.shtml
(An evaluation version of "XMLmind XSL-FO Converter" add-on is included
in Personal Edition.)
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