[Bug 5558] Definition & use of word Document

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5558





------- Comment #1 from johnarwe@us.ibm.com  2008-03-13 05:17 -------
Let's not define terms we don't own.  "XML document" is defined in
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#sec-documents

In order to not substantively change the specs, #2 "to" would need to be
"well-formed XML document", no?  "well-formed" is also a precise term, see
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#dt-wellformed

What exactly is the problem with "Each document in the model MUST be a
well-formed XML document."?  I don't buy the argument that just because the
word document appears twice the definition is circular: the second use is
modified via the adjectives "well-formed XML", i.e. the set of documents in the
(the? not a or any?) [SML] model must be members of a particular sub-class of
all documents... namely, well-formed XML documents.

Received on Thursday, 13 March 2008 05:18:33 UTC