RE: [dita] Groups - Issue 17b: conref - with delta (applying changes) (IssueNumber17b.html) uploaded

["Esrig, Bruce (Bruce)" <esrig@lucent.com>]

Hi Michael,

To summarize and extend some off-line discussions ...

The validity guarantee that is hoped for in this proposal is hard to provide. An editing operation could delete a title or add an extra title, and it would be impossible to determine whether the edit is valid without knowing the context of the edit.

Stated more formally ...

Once the editing options go beyond the simple substitution that is supported by conref in DITA 1.0, it seems that it's impossible to retain the ability to

look only at the location that uses the pre-defined template and be able to determine whether the result of the edit will be valid in context

unless

the location that uses the pre-defined template repeats the context that is being pointed to.

In other words:
    (a) The sequence of nested elements that surrounds the using location must match the corresponding sequence in the pre-defined template and
    (b) The sequence of sibling elements that surrounds the using location at the current nesting level must match the corresponding sequence in the pre-defined template.

This could be cumbersome to maintain, but without it, a local check would not suffice.

Best wishes,

Bruce Esrig

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