On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Ian Medland wrote:
> An object may have an internal or external reference. If an external
> reference is used in the object definition is it true to say that the
> group identifier string must be equivalent to the group identifier of
> the enclosing group. Anything else is an error.
This is true with the exception for elementary actions like Launch, Spawn,
and TransitionTo. However, you can change the scope temporarily with the
Open/CloseConnection elementary actions (if they are supported by the
profile).
> Now, when the group identifier has some semantic meaning (such as in
> DAVIC/UK profile where the group id maps to the DSMCC object name) do
> the group id strings have to be identical or equivalent (ie if one is a
> shortcut form and the other isn't). I would assume they must only be
> equivalent.
Yes, you are right. It is the responsibility of the retrieval module of
an engine to normalise the identifiers.
Best regards,
Andreas
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