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Hi, I have a stupid question.
How do you control different version of your documents in Oxygen XML Editor?
As for the Oxygen guides, you have version 20, version 19, and version 18.
I just want to know, how to manage and maintain different versions of documents.

What I can image is add conditional tags "rev" for the contents.
Any good idea?
Would appreciate for your any help, Thanks!

Hi Catherine,

You cannot hold different versions in the same DITA content. You need to use a version control system which has the support to create branches for each released version.
As an example for our user's manual we use GitHub as a version control and collaboration system, if you look here:

https://github.com/oxygenxml/userguide

there is a "Branch" combo box allowing you to create new branches for your content or to switch to a previous created branch.
On our local machines we work with Git client tools like SourceTree. For example if our technical writer needs to make a fix in the Oxygen 18.1 user's manual, they clone the user's guide GitHub project locally, switch the local repository to the "hotfixes/18.1" branch, make changes and then push them to the equivalent branch on the GitHub server. Then they generate the HTML content from that local "hotfixes/18.1" branch and upload it on our web server. On our web server, for each version there is a separate folder keeping the generated HTML content like for example:

https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/20.0/ug-editor/

Regards,
Radu

Thanks, Radu.
You helped me a lot and saved my day!