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Subject: How to define restrictions: was 'Convergence of proposals'


John,

Perhaps we could explore this one a bit further, I am not sure where/whether there is a problem/disagreement here.

Please would you suggest a real example of a change that needs to be tracked (perhaps one of the use cases?) and the rules that you believe need to be encapsulated in order for an editing application to be sure to understand it.

Then we can look at how these rules could be defined - otherwise we are discussing in the abstract rather.

I think this is what Rob was suggesting in drilling down a bit in specific use cases to focus our attention on identifying the real issues - boil the ocean a drop at a time perhaps! This use case could be the workhorse one perhaps, per Rob's email 'Suggestion:  Focus initially on a small number of use cases'.

Thanks,
Robin

On 21/04/2011 18:38, John Haug wrote:
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> Yes, I believe so: some restriction is needed, possibly in the form of conformance classes or simply in the RelaxNG grammar.

And I’ll repeat from the call my concern that this may be insufficient.  Restricting the tracking of general types of changes to certain elements is helpful, but it still allows, for example, any change of that general class to be tracked on the element.  So, restrictions at levels such as schema would allow tracking of changes to any attributes on a set of elements, not just ones that represent intentional changes the user has made to the conceptual document objects represented by those elements.

 

What do the other experts here think – am I misunderstanding or is this a valid consideration?

 

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John

 


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