atw: Re: All Electronic Doco Solution?

Matthew:
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:01:44 +1000,  you wrote:
> Peter:
>
> What do you mean by "controlling and delivering the source files for
> privileged authors"?
>
> Do you mean CMS functionality?
>
> What about delivery to the user?
>

Er, I did mention an HTML site and generation of PDF..    That was meant for 
the user.
In fact, if you've got your source files in XML and you have some smart XSL
people or tools, you can deliver to the user in many other formats without too 
much trouble, distributing only the latest (approved) documents. 

I would never mean "CMS functionality" because I never know what that means,
particularly the latter word, which is a swear word to me.

By "controlling and delivering the source files for privileged authors" ,
I mean letting authors get at the original source file in storage to change 
them, while
keeping a track of the changes they make as they move files back into the 
system.
And "privileged" means not every man/woman and his/her dog gets to change the
source docs.    Also implied in document control is a process of ensuring only 
approved files are released. 

Source file storage is one thing.... tracking of changes is a step or two 
further on, as in
source code control in systems like CVS, RCS etc...  can be more useful, 
particularly
in group authoring  environments.

--Peter M

 
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