On May 3, 2013, at 4:24 AM, t.p. <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We really do need a tool, the like of which I was using 40 years ago > when writing code, that allows patches to be applied independently and > temporarily to see what it then looks like and if agreed that it looks > good, incorporating them permanently into the source (XML). Ideally > such a tool would reverse engineer the amended text into XML patches as > well - text is so much easier to work with than XML (or any other markup > language). Actually, what I'd like to see is a change approval process, where I can go in and make the edits I want to the document, submit those, and then the document editors can just go down the list of changes approving them or not. I guess that's not too different from what you said, but with a better UI.