Segmentation modification - finalize

There was call for dissebt on the BiDi solution.

The BiDi solution seems stable especially there was strong consensus about dropping dir from source and target.

The impact of this on Segmentation Modification PRs was simple, the dir related PRs were dropped.

However, there seems to be a medium severity editorial issue with the last group of the segmentation modification PRs

Current text:

In all cases:

If any <segment> or <ignorable> element of the <unit> had a <target> child with an order attribute prior to the segmentation modification, the <target> child of all <segment> and <ignorable> elements in the <unit> must be examined and if necessary their order attributes updated to preserve the ordering of the target content prior the segmentation modification.

All inline codes and inline annotations must be adjusted to respect the notations described in sections Usage of <pc> and <sc>/<ec> and Splitting Annotations.

There are two issues IMHO

1) Since the intro bullet does not address any specific type of agent, it should address all Agents according to our Processes and Agents definitions and Conformance Clauses. This must be wrong as the sub-bullets really are only relevant for Modifiers.

2) The second sub-bullet is redundant because the requirement has been expressed as the introductory Contsraint on top of the section.

Constraints

Integrity of the inline codes must be preserved. See the section on Inline Codes and on Annotations for details.

Therefore I propose to change the above as follows:

New proposed text:

When Modifiers perform either the split or the join operation:

[no change to this sub-bullet] If any <segment> or <ignorable> element of the <unit> had a <target> child with an order attribute prior to the segmentation modification, the <target> child of all <segment> and <ignorable> elements in the <unit> must be examined and if necessary their order attributes updated to preserve the ordering of the target content prior the segmentation modification.

[second sub-bullet deleted]

I hope that this can be approved in the meeting today

Thanks

dF

Dr. David Filip

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