Complicated document merge question

austinjim — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:47:03 GMT

Hi all,I need the ability to generate documents on demand, merging in sub-documents like copyright, legal disclaimer, etc. We are trying to use Alfresco for workflow but need to find a tool that handles the merging for us. I think this will require creating a template document with references to ext

Re: Complicated document merge question

jcox — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 05:45:31 GMT

From your description, it sounds like you're talking
about including content from one place within another,
not line-level merges between conflicting versions with
a common ancestor.

There are two very common approaches for handling
inclusion:   dynamic (e.g.: server side includes or JSP includes),
and static (e.g.: template-driven includes such as you can
achieve via freemarker and/or xslt).

If you go the static approach, then you'd just regenerate
your output as-needed.   If you use SSIs, it's all done
automatically, live.   The static approach is more scalable
if you've got a huge amount of traffic, but even large sites
use dynamic inclusion fairly often.

I hope this helps,
-Jon

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