[Bug 4368] Editorial: what does "the appropriate case ... is true" mean?

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4368





------- Comment #1 from davep@iit.edu  2007-03-06 03:52 -------
(In reply to comment #0)
> In a number of places in the spec, lists of constraints are introduced with
> phrases like "the appropriate case among the following is [or, in some
> cases, "must be"] true: ..."  Usually, the items in the list are conditionals:
> if X, then Y.
> 
> Until just now, I thought that that meant "At most one of the following
> items is expected to apply; that one expresses a constraint that must
> be satisfied" and could be implemented by looking at each list item in
> turn and ending the search when one was found where the condition holds
> and the constraint in the then-clause was satisfied.   

I for one think that this should be the intent of that wording, and if a
particular instance  has more than one case true under the same circumstances
it is an error in the spec in need of correction.

Received on Tuesday, 6 March 2007 03:52:39 UTC