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Now that DITA-OT supports change bars (using @rev and configured using ditaval) for AntennaHouse and XEP, it would be really nice to have a setting where Change Tracking (if enabled) could also set the value of @rev on the appropriate containing element for the change. This way, you could easily create a PDF for subject matter experts or other reviewers that could quickly direct them to changes in the document.

The setting could also control deletion of the @rev once the changes have been accepted or rejected. They could be kept for future use, or removed to clean the content based on the setting.

Hi Scott,

Actually the DITA @status attribute would be more appropriate for this task:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os ... -atts.html

So if you were to do this manually you would set on a modified paragraph status="changed" and rev='1.0' to indicate that the paragraph has changed in revision 1.0.

The problem is that you cannot flag the output content based on the @status attribute, you can only flag it based on @rev.

Also there are certain problems with automatically setting the @status attribute when change tracking is enabled. For example if you delete an entire element using Oxygen's change tracking, it gets serialized completely to a processing instruction. So it will disappear completely from the output, you will not be able to style it in any way.

Regards,
Radu

Thanks, Radu. We've had a lot of requests to be able to print change bars / change markup in PDF for reviewers that are not using a CMS or oXygen (even though the source is created in a CMS with oXygen). Are there any stylesheet inclusions that oXygen provides for the change tracking to PDF output (AH or XEP)? We can create customizations, but I don't want to re-create it if it is already available.

Hi Scott,

You can find a detailed answer here:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/forum/post32282.html#p32282

Regards,
Radu