- From: Ian Hickson via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:00:52 +0000
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Update of /sources/public/html5/md In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv28854 Modified Files: Overview.html Log Message: explain what a conforming document is (whatwg r4932) Index: Overview.html =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/public/html5/md/Overview.html,v retrieving revision 1.56 retrieving revision 1.57 diff -u -d -r1.56 -r1.57 --- Overview.html 31 Mar 2010 08:46:39 -0000 1.56 +++ Overview.html 1 Apr 2010 01:00:50 -0000 1.57 @@ -474,12 +474,17 @@ of the key word ("must", "should", "may", etc) used in introducing the algorithm.<p>This specification describes the conformance criteria for <span class="impl">user agents (relevant to implementors) and</span> documents<span class="impl"> (relevant to authors and authoring tool - implementors)</span>.<p class="note impl">There is no implied relationship between - document conformance requirements and implementation conformance - requirements. User agents are not free to handle non-conformant - documents as they please; the processing model described in this - specification applies to implementations regardless of the - conformity of the input documents.<div class="impl"> + implementors)</span>.<p><dfn id="conforming-documents">Conforming documents</dfn> are those that comply with all + the conformance criteria for documents. For readability, some of + these conformance requirements are phrased as conformance + requirements on authors; such requirements are implicitly + requirements on documents: by definition, all documents are assumed + to have had an author. (In some cases, that author may itself be a + user agent — such user agents are subject to additional rules, + as explained below.)<p class="example">For example, if a requirement states that + "authors must not use the <code title="">foobar</code> element", it + would imply that documents are not allowed to contain elements named + <code title="">foobar</code>.<div class="impl"> <p>Some conformance requirements are phrased as requirements on
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