Branch filtering: Multiple condition sets for a branch
When multiple <ditavalref> elements occur as children of the same element, the rules in the referenced DITAVAL documents are processed independently. This effectively requires a processor to maintain one copy of the branch for each <ditavalref>, so that each copy can be filtered using different conditions.
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When a processor maintains multiple copies of a branch for different condition sets, it has to manage situations where a single resource with a single key name results in two distinct resources. Key names must be modified in order to allow references to a specific filtered copy of the resource; without renaming, key references could only be used to refer to a single filtered copy of the resource, chosen by the processor. See Branch filtering: Impact on resource and key names for details on how to manage resource names and key names.