Comma tools (partially?) broken?

I found https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-XML,tools thanks to a semi-failed
websearch.

It says that various information is available about
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-XML.  It also says that some of these "can
also be accessed by adding the comma prefix shown to the document Web
address - these so called "comma-tools" work on any www.w3.org page".
These strike me as an extremely useful feature (I'm using ,text below
as my test case).

But there are problems.  For one thing, the links given make it appear
that the comma strings given are actually suffixes, not prefixes.  For
another, they don't seem to work.  Following the "Contact" link on
https://www.w3.org/ takes me to https://www.w3.org/contact/, but
editing the URL to https://www.w3.org/contact/,text gives me what
appears to be a 404 page (with the URL rewritten to
https://www.w3.org/contact/,text/).  https://www.w3.org/contact,text
redirects to https://www.w3.org/contact,text/ and gives me the same
apparently-404 content.  I even tried https://www.w3.org/,textcontact
in case "prefix" really was the truth; that did not rewrite the URL,
but gave me a different 404 page.  I also tried switching out https:
for http: - trying http://www.w3.org/contact,text - in case that
mattered.  It didn't appear to; I got redirected right back to the
HTTPS version (which is actually what I was expecting).

I'm not sure what the truth is, but it doesn't seem to be what the text
says.  Might want to fix this.

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