Systems and methods for document review, display and validation within a collaborative environment

A system for controlling review of a document, the system comprising:

• a memory for storing executable instructions for controlling review of a document;
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• a processor configured to execute the instructions, the instructions including:
• a display module that (a) receives a request to review a document and that retrieves the document upon a web-based interface receiving the request to review the document, the document including source content in an extensible markup language format, the document having a read-only access file permission;
• (b) converts the document to read-write access file permission such that the source content is modifiable;
• and (c) provides the updated document to the web-based interface such that a document reviewer may immediately or instantaneously review two or more modifications of the source content being incorporated into the document;
• a review module communicatively coupled with the display module that
• (a) receives the two or more modifications of the source content of the document from two or more users;
• (b) incorporates the two or more modifications of the source content into the document to create a modified document;
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• (c) creates a navigation aid that visually portrays iterations of the document from the two or more modifications that are listed in chronological order with a glyph between adjacent dates;
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• the review module further comprising a validation module that evaluates the two or more modifications made to the source content of the document before the two or more modifications are incorporated into the document.