All,<div><br></div><div>I am looking at using BaseX for a prototype that requires synchronization of XML data. In other words, XML documents may need to be merged and there might be conflicts.</div><div><br></div><div>This seems like a complex issue and I wonder if anyone has conquered this before. The only thing that I can think of to do is to version nodes which may have conflicts. For example:</div>
<div><br></div><div>&lt;person&gt;</div><div>  &lt;name&gt;</div><div>    &lt;first version=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Erik&lt;/first&gt; &lt;!-- Version 2 has been added since I last synchronized! --&gt;</div><div>    &lt;last version=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Murphy&lt;/last&gt;</div>
<div>  &lt;/name&gt;</div><div>&lt;/person&gt;</div><div><br></div><div>If I do a merge and the &lt;first&gt; version is &gt;= last known version (1) + 1 ( which is 2 or greater), then I would know there is a conflict.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A possible solution is there could be a deferment of conflict resolution, and data could be inserted like this:</div><div><br></div><div><div>&lt;person&gt;</div><div>  &lt;name&gt;</div><div>    &lt;first version=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Eric&lt;/first&gt; &lt;!-- Conflict! --&gt;</div>
<div>    &lt;first version=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Erik&lt;/first&gt;</div><div>    &lt;last version=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Murphy&lt;/last&gt;</div><div>  &lt;/name&gt;</div><div>&lt;/person&gt;</div></div><div><br></div><div>The application would be responsible for resolving the conflict when the nodes are read at a later time.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Like I said, this all seems very complicated, so maybe there is an elegant solution which I have not thought of.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Eric Murphy</div>