RE: [dita] Groups - DITA Proposed Feature #12013 Referencing a range of elements (ConrefRange.html) uploaded

["Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgrosso@ptc.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 2007 July 31 9:23
> To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [dita] Groups - DITA Proposed Feature #12013 
> Referencing a range of elements (ConrefRange.html) uploaded
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: yas.etessam@xmetal.com [mailto:yas.etessam@xmetal.com] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, 2007 July 31 1:48
> > To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: [dita] Groups - DITA Proposed Feature #12013 
> > Referencing a range of elements (ConrefRange.html) uploaded

> 
> Although I can see the "would be nice" factor for this proposal,
> it makes me very nervous.  It is basically trying to replicate
> the range proposal for the XPointer xpointer() scheme [1] which
> was turned down by W3C and has never been accepted as a standard.
> 
> If we were to consider this proposal, we would have to add a lot
> of careful wording about which combinations of start and end
> locations are valid and what happens when they are not valid.

Also, one of the key features of conref is that the element type
of its target is supposed to reflect the element type on which
the conref occurs.  What happens, though, if there are elements
between the start and end that are of a differnt type?  What if
the start and end targets are of a different type?  

paul