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Since SGML involves some level of _structural_ description, how might
it be used to indicate structural changes to a document?  For example,
if the sections in a chapter are reordered, how might that "delta" be
encoded in SGML?

Or should it be encoded at all?  Currently, I have to produce a
separate text-description of such changes to reveiwers.  Could this be
automated in any useful of meaningful way?

Even if it should and can, their are interesting problems related to
this.  Simply submitting an original and a radically-resequenced
revision to an automated tool (like `diff') is pointless.  Should the
editing tool itself capture and record changes in sequence (for
example, noting movements of large blocks of text) by means of some
encoding in the revised text?

Finally, how should changes in sequence be presented to the reader?
Simple bars will not do -- perhaps some change-barred version of the
table of contents would be appropriate.

Jim McCauley, Learning Products Engineer    **   I do not speak for   **
(that means that I write documentation)     ** Hewlett-Packard in any **
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