Flexible Merging of Hierarchical Documents
Claudia‐Lavinia Ignat, Moira C. Norrie · 2014
Existing versioning systems offer limited support concerning the definition and resolution of conflicts as well as tracking of user activity. In this paper we propose a flexible hierarchical-based merging approach based on operations, where the conflicts can be specified and resolved at different semantic units corresponding to the document levels. Our algorithm applies an existing operation-based merging approach for linear structures recursively over the different document levels. Our approach also achieves better efficiency compared to existing approaches for merging documents with linear structures.