E.4.PFIP:4.4 - Allocate a non-one-to-one form change

An accepted publication-form addition, retirement, split, merge, or use-change decision names the affected predecessor and candidate expression occurrences and any narrower one-to-one continuity that survives. It authorizes the change in publication forms. It does not dispose of predecessor content.

Run a separate allocation comparison for every accepted form change that leaves an affected predecessor expression outside an eligible one-to-one pair, and for every split or merge even when narrower pairs survive.

1. Select a complete inventory for every predecessor expression named by the form-change decision.
2. For every named predecessor content or selected structure, record one or more corresponding candidate expression parts, an accepted content-change or content-retirement decision, an accidental-loss result, or a blocker.
3. Allow predecessor content to appear in several candidate expressions and several predecessor inventory entries to correspond to one candidate expression part.
4. Inspect the complete inventories of the named candidate expressions and classify candidate content or selected structure without a predecessor allocation as accepted or unexpected additions.
5. Reuse an eligible-pair result as correspondence evidence when applicable, but do not let it replace the allocation traversal.

Keep every named expression, carrier, edition, and publication occurrence separate throughout the allocation. The allocation comparison is the method for reasoning across them; it does not need a new collective publication kind.

Without the form-change decision, stop at missing publication-expression continuity decision. Without a complete selectable predecessor inventory, stop at missing form-comparison basis. Without an outcome for any named predecessor content or selected structure, return accidental loss or a blocker. Retiring a form never retires its content by implication.