Re: [dita] Why There are Constraints on Conref

[ekimber <ekimber@reallysi.com>]

On 9/24/09 4:55 PM, "Su-Laine Yeo" <su-laine.yeo@justsystems.com> wrote:

> Many interesting issues are being raised, and I just want to address one
> of the memes before it spreads:
> 
>  
> 
> "Architects could very well try to take advantage of the constraint
> mechanism as a means of improving the usability of the authoring
> templates.
> In so doing, under the current proposal, they would be rendering their
> content unusable outside of their environment."
> 
>  
> 
> As I understand the spec, architects who add constraints do not have to
> worry about making their content unusable to others. You can conref
> more-constrained content into less-constrained document types.

Correct.

They might be making content outside their environment unusable *by them*
but they would not be making their content unusable to others who use fewer
constraints.

Cheers,

E.

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