[closed] Re: Adding profiles with validation

At the 13 Oct telcon, we agreed that adding section 7 to the spec resolved this issue.

"Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> writes:
> Further to discussion last month, I've looked at this, and I think in
> fact the right thing to say is, it's orthogonal.  That is, insofar as
> this spec. is focussed on the _information content_ of the data model
> constructed per the various profiles, we already cover the _impact_ of
> validation (it only affects the [element content whitespace] property
> of CIIs) at that level.
>
> On the other hand, I think it would be entirely reasonable to add a
> Note to section 6, Conformance, along these lines
>
>  Note: Validation against a DTD or other schema is almost entirely
>  orthogonal to the data model concerns this specification addresses.
>  It is open to any specification which references this one in a
>  conformance statement to include wording requiring (or indeed
>  forbidding) validation of one or more varieties.
>
> ht
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                                          norm

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