RE: [xtm-wg] Questions about Merging.

["Kal Ahmed" <kal@techquila.com>]

> >Section 2.4 (Merging) states that topics have the same subject
> if "they have
> >one or more subject indicators in common". Is this meant to include the
> ><topicRef> elements located inside the topics' <subjectIdentity>
> elements or
> >just the <subjectIndicatorRef> elements?
>
> Both. Two topics with a <subjectIdentity>:<topicRef> in common
> have the same subject as the referenced topic and hence the same
> subject as each other. All three would get merged.
>

Note that the important thing in merging is the *subject* not the syntactic
form used to reference the subject (via a topic or some external subject
indicator). So, if a topic A has a <subjectIdentity>:<topicRef> which refers
to topic B with a <subjectIdentity>:<subjectIndicatorRef> X and topic C has
a <subjectIdentity>:<subjectIndicatorRef> of X, then all three merge.

Cheers,

Kal

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