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Re: Merge of Word docs?

From: Paul Gross <paul_at_grosss.net>
Date: 2004-01-30 20:51:55 CET

I believe that OpenOffice documents are just zipped up xml files (plus
images and other binary files), so in theory, you could unzip the file
and merge the xml docs. I'm not sure about RTF, though.

Paul Gross

Luis Malheiro wrote:

> Brian Mathis wrote:
>
>> Luis Malheiro wrote:
>>
>>> Simmons, Bryan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok, so one of the basic characteristics of subversion is that when a
>>>> collision occurs with respect to two people checking in another
>>>> revision
>>>> at the same time the last person to check in has to manually merge two
>>>> revs.
>>>> How is this handled with Word files or graphics or some other
>>>> non-ASCII
>>>> file?
>>>>
>>> AFAIK, you would need a tool to make the merge. ClearCase has one
>>> for MSWord. Maybe you could build one using MSWord macros.
>>> The issue doesn't apply only to non-ASCII files, Rational Rose files
>>> are ASCII encoded, but can't be easily merged without a tool called
>>> Model Integrator provided by Rational itself.
>>>
>>> Luis
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Word actually has this built-in. In Word XP, look under
>> "Tools/Compare and Merge Documents". But as far as svn integration,
>> you're out of luck for now.
>>
> Does anyone know if it is easier to merge Open Office documents or
> even RTF files?
>
> Luis
>
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