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How to deal with conditionalities that are not (currently) framed as profile options

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How do / should we deal with conditionality other than as formal profile options (e.g., is it possible to have conditional text in requirement statements + a "conditional" hidden label?). If we have only profile options we may see an explosive proliferation of those!

Here is the concrete example that triggered these questions, coming from the review of PR#469, and moved from there to this new issue to unlock progress on PR#469:

R0800, R0801and R0802 are shall level requirements that, accordingly, show up as "r" in the ICS table 3:Z.2.2-1 for SOMDS Providers. Shouldn't that be conditional on (1) the Participant using the sdpi:ReportSequence extension (which is "should" in all 2:A.5.2 requirements) AND (2) the Participant using MDPWS (as that extension is defined in 2:A)?

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