Versioning XML-based office documents: An efficient, format-independent, merge-capable approach

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 253-274

  Rönnau, Sebastian ^a   Borghoff, Uwe M ^a  

^a BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Document merging; Fingerprint; Office applications; Version control; XML diff; XML patch

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT DETECTION; CONTEXT-AWARE; DELTA MODEL; DOCUMENT MERGING; DOCUMENT STANDARDS; FINGERPRINT; FINGERPRINTING TECHNIQUES; FORMAT-INDEPENDENT; OFFICE APPLICATIONS; VERSION CONTROL; VERSIONING;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MERGING; XML;

MARKUP LANGUAGES;

EID: 67349135200     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: 15737721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-009-0271-2     Document Type: Article

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