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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 31.
Published in final edited form as: J Integr Bioinform. 2015 Sep 4;12(2):268. doi: 10.2390/biecoll-jib-2015-268

Table 3.

The effects of deletions and replacements on nested objects.

If the parent is: And the child is: The result is:
Deleted Deleted Both the parent and child are removed from the model. Any references to either object are invalid and must be removed.
Deleted Replaced Both the parent and child are removed from the model. Any references to the child object are now considered to refer to its replacement object. Any references to the parent object are invalid and must be removed.
Replaced Deleted Both the parent and child are removed from the model. Any references to the parent object are now considered to refer to its replacement object. Any references to the child object are invalid and must be removed.
Replaced Replaced Both the parent and child are removed from the model. References to the parent object are now considered to refer to the parent’s replacement, and any references to the child object are now considered to refer to the child’s replacement.