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WikiTexi will be designed to ease the creation of documentation of a collaborative software development effort by creating an environment in which documentation can occur collaboratively with properly gauged effort from central administrative resources.
To ease administrative considerations, the WikiTexi model divides collaboration into three categories: structure collaboration, content collaboration, and commentary and annotations.
To preserve some degree of organization in a document, it will be necessary for WikiTexi document owners to "lock" certain portions of documentation structures. These locks may be as miniscule as lock on the root node, or as comprehensive as a complete lock on the structure, allowing contributors to only add text to already existing sections. A typical compromise might be a two-level lock -- Chapters and Sections are locked but authors may create structure below that.
Structural locking characteristics require more thought, especially if they're to be applicable across multiple DTDs. Structural locking considerations will drive significant portions of the WikiTexi security/collaboration model.