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Inheritance Principle: Advise against overloading #1834

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Expand Up @@ -669,7 +669,10 @@ to which the metadata contained within are not applicable.
The Inheritance Principle defines a systematized set of rules
to determine which metadata files to associate with which data files.
Further, because multiple metadata files may apply to an individual data file,
the Principle defines the *order of precedence* of such metadata files contents.
the Principle defines the *order of precedence* of such metadata content;
this is necessary for resolution of conflicts if the same metadata field
contains different values in different metadata files
(though it is RECOMMENDED to avoid such overloading).

### Rules

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