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[Christopher Nitchie]

There's a third aspect to that coin. The target of a given key reference might have any of three relationships to the referencing element, and it might vary from context to context. The target might be 1. In a different root map. 2. In a different scope in the same root map. 3. In the same key scope. By using standard keyref syntax and not imposing a new keyref syntax component that forces the assumption that the target is 'somewhere else,' we give map authors the flexibility they need to configure all three cases. Chris