"ap·pen·dix 1. An appendage. 2. A collection of supplementary material, usually at the end of a book." supplementary... as in: if you cut it off, you haven't changed what's specified, right? Normative references, normative grammars, and the like do not belong in appendixes. I gave this advice to the editors in the WG I chair, regarding the SPARQL grammar... http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20041012/#grammar and they pointed out that they were just doing like the other specs they saw; indeed, I see... http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/#references http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SMIL2-20050201/refs.html Susan, please consider adding something about appendixes to the W3C manual of style. http://www.w3.org/2001/06/manual/ -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/Received on Wednesday, 9 February 2005 05:32:24 GMT
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