Re: Some editorial issues with the Metadata document

I'll leave it to the editors' discretion to come up with a suitable
change.  I suppose we could just replace the whole thing with "riverrun,
past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay ..."

David Illsley wrote:
>>     * The NOTE in section 3.2.3 after the first paragraph that if both
>>       anonymous and non anonymous responses are supported there should
>>       be a separate alternative including only anonymous responses
>>       consists of one long sentence with no punctuation making it fairly
>>       hard to parse but also lending it a certain Joycean quality which
>>       is to be commended.
>>     
>
> I thank you for the commendation, I am rather proud ;-)
>
> However, having been someone who has spend much time trying to parse such 
> sentences in other specs, I'd agree with a re-write. How about:
>
> NOTE: If both AnonymousResponses and NonAnonymousResponses are supported, 
> and the intention is to allow either to be used, care should be taken to 
> ensure there are alternatives such that a subject which supports only one 
> will have a compatible policy [WS Policy 1.5 - Primer section 3.4]. There 
> should be at least an alternative which includes just AnonymousResponses 
> as a nested assertion and an alternative with just NonAnonymousResponses 
> as a nested assertion 
>
> David
>
>   

Received on Monday, 8 January 2007 18:50:18 UTC