DOCBOOK-APPS: Versioning

[Mark Brand <mark dot brand at elegalpublishing dot com>]

Hi

 

I have a question about versioning of DocBook documents.

 

Some Background Info:

I have a master copy of government legislation (called an Act)  in DocBook format. Now the guvment makes amendments to the Act (An amendment is a textual change to the original Act  - could  be  Addition, Removal or Modification of text). What I am required to do is supply a consolidated act (i.e The Original Act + all amendments) and also supply a means by which users can see the Act at a point in time.

 

For Example:

    Original Act published 27-Oct-2001

    Amendment 01 published 12-Dec-2001

    Amendment 02 published 15-July-2002

    Amendment 03 published 4-Dec-2002

 

Users want to see the Act

    (1) Original Form

    (2) Original Form + Amendment 01

    (3) Original Form + Amendment 02

    (3) Original Form + Amendment 03

    (4) Original Form + Amendment 04 = Fully Consolidated Act

 

It appears to be a similar problem to that of software version management.

 

Questions:

Does DocBook have any facility to manage this type of versioning?

Does anyone know of any tools that can be integrated into a current browser based application to solve this problem?

Does anyone have any idea of the best way to solve this problem?

 

 

Thanks in advance for any help given in this matter.

 

 

Regards

Mark Brand