- From: Ian Hickson via cvs-syncmail <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:00:52 +0000
- To: public-html-commits@w3.org
Update of /sources/public/html5/md
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Modified Files:
Overview.html
Log Message:
explain what a conforming document is (whatwg r4932)
Index: Overview.html
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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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