Documents are the backbone of most knowledge management processes. With the uprising of XML as ubiquitous meta-format, XML-based document formats like ODF, OpenXML, or XHTML emerged as de-facto standards. Especially in the domain of knowledge management, the ability to quickly detect, and display changes in documents is a crucial need. Furthermore, the ability to merge different document versions allows for parallel editing of documents. In this paper, we present a graphical user interface being able to display changes in XML documents. It is based on a novel XML-delta approach based on context-oriented fingerprints, introduced in previous work. Using our interface, the user is enabled to intereractively merge document versions.
Rönnau et al. (Wed,) studied this question.