microdata; hixie: explain what a conforming document is (whatwg r4932)

microdata; hixie: explain what a conforming document is (whatwg r4932)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/md/Overview.html?r1=1.56&r2=1.57&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4931&to=4932

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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 &mdash; 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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