Using conditions in multi-destination docs

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

For a doc set that can be used with either Prod1 or 
Prod2, can I get away with just two condition tags:

 - notProductOne
 - notProductTwo

Example text would be something like:

"Your [Prod1][Prod2] arrives from the factory with default 
network settings. Before using the appliance configure 
for your network as follows: "

Each time a product name appeared it would be a pair with 
both elements condition tagged. [Prod1] would have condition 
notProductTwo, and [Prod2] would be tagged notProductOne. 

I would do the same with paragraphs and whole topics/pages 
that applied to just one or the other.

Am I overlooking a situation where a third condition would 
come in handy (or be literally indispensible)? Assume, for 
now, that only the two output versions are needed for the 
next year or three.

By default anything that's untagged appears in the output 
regardless of the product, since it should be common to both.
I can't shake the nagging feeling that I'm going to get 
halfway through the project and suddenly regret not having 
wielded a third tag in a bunch of places.  Darn it...


Kevin McLauchlan
Senior Technical Writer
SafeNet, Inc.
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