RE: [dita] Why There are Constraints on Conref

["JoAnn Hackos" <joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com>]

Are we clear in saying that one cannot conref between Task and General
Task at all? or only from Task to General Task? Is it possible to conref
from General Task to Task?

From loose to more constrained, will the conref work? 
So can I conref a prereq from General Task to a prereq to Task but not
vice versa? 

But, I cannot conref a <step> from Task to General Task even though they
are in both models?

Would someone please state all the use cases simply? I'm trying to be
clear in writing the arch spec and the feature description and I'm still
confused by all the rhetoric being flung around. 

JoAnn

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-----Original Message-----
From: ekimber [mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:17 PM
To: Su-Laine Yeo; Michael Priestley; rob@ascan.ca
Cc: dita; Ogden, Jeff
Subject: Re: [dita] Why There are Constraints on Conref

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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