XHR user agent "supports XML"?

What does this mean?

[[
Conforming XML user agent 
        
        A user agent that is a conforming user agent and also supports
        XML (including support for namespaces). 
]]
 -- http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20070618/


The XML spec defines conformance of documents and processors.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#sec-conformance

Is the XHR spec saying that conforming XHR user agents
are conforming XML processors? If so, it seems more clear
to say so:

  Every conforming user agent is a conforming _XML processor_.

with a link to http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#dt-xml-proc


p.s. editorial suggestion: move the "If the user agent does not
support XML ..." bit out from under "Conforming user agent".

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Tuesday, 14 August 2007 01:39:33 UTC