Re: [Bug-gnupedia]Changes to articles

[Mike Warren]

Soam Vasani <address@hidden> writes:

> Each article has an identifier, say "foobar"
> Each version and each translation of the article has a unique
> identifier: "foobar-en-1.0".
> When an article is updated, the version number is incremented
> but the old article is still accessible.  A headnote is added to
> the old article saying that there is a newer version available.

Yes, except the headnote (if desired) should be added by the
classifiers. See:

  http://www.mike-warren.com/viewsources/gne-design.html

> writing the full identifier "foobar-en-1.0", or saying something
> like "foobar-autolang-latest", where "latest" requests the latest
> version,

Yes, the classifiers will know what is the latest version. Since we've
pretty much decided on XML for the format (and TEI for the DTD with
less conviction), storing these in files makes sense:

uniqueID.en.version.xml

with optional (or not, depending on who you ask) signatures:

uniqueID.en.version.xml.asc

The versions should just increase (i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4 etcetera).

> So "autolang" is a useful feature.

I agree, but this is something the classifiers can handle.

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