hixie: Add a cautionary note about 8601. (whatwg r3507)

hixie: Add a cautionary note about 8601. (whatwg r3507)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.2704&r2=1.2705&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3506&to=3507

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--- Overview.html 31 Jul 2009 00:57:16 -0000 1.2704
+++ Overview.html 31 Jul 2009 01:06:42 -0000 1.2705
@@ -3019,7 +3019,17 @@
   Gregorian calendar. <a href="#references">[GREGORIAN]</a><p>The <dfn id="concept-datetime-digit" title="concept-datetime-digit">digits</dfn> in the date
   and time syntaxes defined in this section must be characters in the
   range U+0030 DIGIT ZERO to U+0039 DIGIT NINE, used to express
-  numbers in base ten.<h5 id="months"><span class="secno">2.4.5.1 </span>Months</h5><p>A <dfn id="concept-month" title="concept-month">month</dfn> consists of a specific
+  numbers in base ten.<div class="impl">
+
+  <p class="note">While the formats described here are intended to be
+  subsets of the corresponding ISO8601 formats, this specification
+  defines parsing rules in much more detail than ISO8601.
+  Implementators are therefore encouraged to carefully examine any
+  date parsing libraries before using them to implement the parsing
+  rules described below; ISO8601 libraries might not parse dates and
+  times exactly the same manner. <a href="#references">[ISO8601]</a></p>
+
+  </div><h5 id="months"><span class="secno">2.4.5.1 </span>Months</h5><p>A <dfn id="concept-month" title="concept-month">month</dfn> consists of a specific
   proleptic Gregorian date with no time-zone information and no date
   information beyond a year and a month. <a href="#references">[GREGORIAN]</a><p>A string is a <dfn id="valid-month-string">valid month string</dfn> representing a year
   <var title="">year</var> and month <var title="">month</var> if it
@@ -6795,9 +6805,13 @@
 interface <dfn id="htmlunknownelement">HTMLUnknownElement</dfn> : <a href="#htmlelement">HTMLElement</a> { };</pre><p>The <code><a href="#htmlelement">HTMLElement</a></code> interface holds methods and
   attributes related to a number of disparate features, and the
   members of this interface are therefore described in various
-  different sections of this specification.<p>The <code><a href="#htmlunknownelement">HTMLUnknownElement</a></code> interface must be used for
+  different sections of this specification.<div class="impl">
+
+  <p>The <code><a href="#htmlunknownelement">HTMLUnknownElement</a></code> interface must be used for
   <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a> that are not defined by this
-  specification.<h4 id="global-attributes"><span class="secno">3.3.3 </span><dfn>Global attributes</dfn></h4><p>The following attributes are common to and may be specified on
+  specification.</p>
+
+  </div><h4 id="global-attributes"><span class="secno">3.3.3 </span><dfn>Global attributes</dfn></h4><p>The following attributes are common to and may be specified on
   all <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a><span class="impl"> (even those not
   defined in this specification)</span>:<ul class="brief"><li><code title="attr-accesskey"><a href="#the-accesskey-attribute">accesskey</a></code></li>
    <li><code title="attr-class"><a href="#classes">class</a></code></li>

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