Document sharing with other users - Collaboration

Working on a project with a friend and we need to collaborate on several documents.  Is this possible in iCloud.  At first glance it does not appear so.
Thank you.

Yes it is possible, but not with the basic setup.
Firstly, I assume you are talking about iWork documents, and not any other type of document. Unfortunately iCloud document syncing only works within the same iCloud account. In order to share documents, You would need to our load/download your documents and share them from a third party storage solution such as dropbox or sugarsync.
Downloading documents from such storage solutions is not a problem, but in order to upload them from the iWork app on your iOS device, you will need to use a webDAV server.

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