Conref push in a DITA map?

[Kristen James Eberlein <keberlein@pobox.com>]

I've drafted an article about conref push for the DITA Adoption 
Committee. Seth Park, Elliot Kimber, and Paul Grosso were kind enough to 
review it.

One of Elliot's comments led to a discussion about whether or not conref 
push works at a DITA map level.

    * The use case in the original proposal
      (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/26290/IssueNumber17e.html)
      focuses entirely on pushing content into an existing DITA topic.

    * The most recent draft of the DITA 1.2 documentation
      (http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/34300/dita1.2-spec-complete_20September2009.chm)
      explicitly defines the @conaction attribute as an attribute that
      "allows user to push content from one topic into another."

    * The @conaction attribute *is* available for <topicref> elements,
      although pushing content into a DITA map does not work with the
      DITA OT (milestone 17).

Should conref push work at the DITA map level?

Best,

Kris

Kristen James Eberlein