html5/markup/src documents.html,1.9,1.10

Update of /sources/public/html5/markup/src
In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv13348/src

Modified Files:
	documents.html 
Log Message:
simplify/clarify description of what a conformant XML/XHTML document is (thx=SimonPieters)


Index: documents.html
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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/markup/src/documents.html,v
retrieving revision 1.9
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -d -r1.9 -r1.10
--- documents.html	4 Mar 2010 16:46:19 -0000	1.9
+++ documents.html	5 Mar 2010 08:53:36 -0000	1.10
@@ -50,11 +50,11 @@
   is defined by rules in the XML specification
   <a href="#refsXML">[XML]</a>
   and in the Namespaces in XML 1.0 specification
-  <a href="#refsXML">[XMLNS]</a>.
-  Beyond the requirements defined in those specifications,
-  this specification does not define any additional syntax-level
-  requirements for 
-  <a href="#syntax-document-xml">documents in the XML syntax</a>.</p>
+  <a href="#refsXML">[XMLNS]</a>;
+  any syntax-level requirements for 
+  <a href="#syntax-document-xml">documents in the XML syntax</a>
+  described in this specification are intended to be the same as
+  those defined in the XML specification.</p>
   </section>
   <section id="mime-types">
     <h2>The HTML namespace and MIME types</h2>
@@ -117,24 +117,19 @@
     <dfn id="syntax-document-xml"
       title="syntax-document-xml">document in the XML syntax</dfn>
     must be a
-    <dfn id="well-formed-xml-document">well-formed XML document</dfn>,
-    as defined in the XML specification <a href="#refsXML">[XML]</a>,
+    <dfn id="namespace-well-formed-xml-document">namespace-well-formed</dfn>
+    XML document, as defined in the Namespaces in XML 1.0 specification
+    <a href="#refsXML">[XMLNS]</a>,
     and its
-    <dfn id="root-element">root element</dfn>,
-    as defined in the XML specification <a href="#refsXML">[XML]</a>,
+    <dfn id="root-element">root element</dfn>
     must be an
     <a href="#html" class="element">html</a> element.</p>
-    <p>Documents in the XML syntax must conform to XML constraints
-    as defined in the XML specification
-    <a href="#refsXML">[XML]</a>
-    and in the Namespaces in XML 1.0 specification
-    <a href="#refsXML">[XMLNS]</a>
-    — including XML well-formedness constraints — and must not
-    make use of any features of the
+    <p class="note">
+    Documents in the XML syntax  must not make use of any features
+    of the
     <a href="#html-syntax">HTML syntax</a>
-    that do not follow XML
-    well-formedness constraints (for example, documents in the XML
-    syntax must not use
+    that do not follow XML well-formedness constraints (for
+    example, documents in the XML syntax must not use
     <a href="#syntax-attr-unquoted">unquoted attribute value syntax</a>
     and must not
     <a href="#omitted">omit tags</a>).</p>

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