- From: Krzysztof Żelechowski <giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl>
- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:26:22 +0100
Dnia 24-12-2007, Pn o godzinie 16:36 -0500, L. David Baron pisze: > On Monday 2007-12-24 19:07 +0100, Krzysztof ?elechowski wrote: > > My rewording for competition: > > "Authors may use elements in the HTML namespace > > in the contexts where they are explicitly allowed and nowhere else." > > > My rewording for competition: > > "Authors may put elements inside an element only if that element..." > > (because "only if" is a common and well understood expression.) > > These won't work because they make the statement a much weaker > requirement per RFC 2119: > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt > > Changing from a MUST or MUST NOT to a MAY is a substantive change, > not a rewording. RFC 2119 does not forbid using MAY conditionally. Under these conditions, this is a MAY, otherwise this is a MUST-NOT. If you prefer MUST NOT to MAY NOT, which is about the same in English, you can say "... and MUST NOT use them anywhere else." Note that this is a true MAY, not a MUST; you NEED NOT use any HTML elements at all, except for a few that make the basic skeleton of a document, and I may even be wrong here because those elements may be supplied by the user agent so that an empty document is a valid document; but that MUST is described elsewhere, and I may even be wrong here because those elements may be supplied by the user agent so that an empty document can be treated as valid. Chris
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