Re: Suggested addition to 3023bis for XML family specs

That works for me.

paul

> On Nov 28, 2013, at 9:27, ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) wrote:
> 
> Paul Grosso writes:
> 
>>>   Appendix B lists the core XML specifications which, taken together
>>>   with [XML] itself, show how to determine an XML document's semantics
>>>   at both the language level and the application level.
>> 
>> My concern here is that the above sentence appears to say
>> that the given list of specifications is sufficient to
>> determine all the document's application level semantics,
>> and that is not true.  No list can determine all the
>> application level semantics for all applications (including
>> applications not yet envisioned).
>> 
>> I'd like to see a rewording that makes it clear that we
>> aren't suggesting either that the given list is exhaustive
>> or that any list could be exhaustive in determining all
>> application level semantics.
> 
> Good point, and I had meant to avoid that, but obviously failed to do
> so.
> 
> How about
> 
>    Appendix B lists the core XML specifications which, taken together
>    with [XML] itself, show how to determine an XML document's
>    language-level semantics and suggest how information about its
>    application level semantics may be locatable.
> 
> ht
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