- From: Gavin Carothers <gavin@carothers.name>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 12:18:31 -0700
- To: RDF-WG WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de> wrote: > Gavin, > > [moving this over to RDF-WG list] > > On 17 May 2012, at 17:48, Gavin Carothers wrote: >> All of the Turtle in HTML section is non-normative. > > Is it? > > It's currently impossible to tell what's normative and what's informative in the Turtle ED. I hope I've addressed this in the current editors draft. > > Some sections are titled “X.Y Section Title (Informative)”. > All removed. > Some sections are titled “X.Y Section Title (Normative)”. All removed. > > Some sections are just titled “X.Y Section Title”. All titles are this way. > > Some sections start with the phrase “This section is non-normative”. The presence of this phrase seems not to be correlated with the presence of “(Informative)” in the section title. All non-normative section should now have this marker. > > W3C's QA Framework [1] states as a Good Practice: “Specify in the conformance clause how to distinguish normative from informative content.” In fact, ReSpec automatically includes a boilerplate sentence defining this when you include a section like so: > > <section id="conformance"> > (… additional body content for Conformance section here …) > </section> As discussed in the last WG meeting the conformance section has been replaced with the simple boiler plate. No additional Turtle conformance requirements are defined at the moment. > > This also inserts boilerplate explaining the RFC2119 magic words (MUST, SHOULD, etc.) and a reference to the RFC. This is currently also missing from the Turtle ED. Yep, boilerplate inserted. > > See [2] for an example of this ReSpec feature in action. Yeah, had been called #sec-conformance, now just #conformance Thanks, Gavin > > Best, > Richard > > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/qaframe-spec/ > [2] http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-concepts/index.html#conformance
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