Re: RFC2119 usage in XML 11 (was Re: Agenda for XML Core WG telcon of 2006 February 22) from John Cowan on 2006-02-22 (public-xml-core-wg@w3.org from February 2006)

From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:01:29 -0500
To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: "Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>, public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <20060222210129.GD29410@ccil.org>

Henry S. Thompson scripsit:

> Done -- see http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2006/02/xml11-20060222.xml
> 
> This shows all the changes John suggested in his message [1].

The only changes I'd wish to retract are SHOULD > should in 2.13 and 5.1.
These constrain the behavior of programs that generate XML, and ought to
be proper RFC 2119 SHOULDs.

> Note I have used chg markup, rendered as green background, for RFC2119
> MAY which John recommends should _remain_ as RFC2119 MAY, since these
> are the more unusual cases.

I appreciate all your work on this.

-- 
John Cowan      cowan@ccil.org        http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
        Is it not written, "That which is written, is written"?

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