- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 00:32:22 -0500
- To: spec-prod@w3.org
- Cc: Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org>
"ap·pen·dix
1. An appendage.
2. A collection of supplementary material, usually at the end
of a book."
supplementary... as in: if you cut it off, you haven't changed what's
specified, right?
Normative references, normative grammars, and the like do not belong in
appendixes.
I gave this advice to the editors in the WG I chair, regarding the
SPARQL grammar...
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20041012/#grammar
and they pointed out that they were just doing like the other specs
they saw; indeed,
I see...
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/#references
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SMIL2-20050201/refs.html
Susan, please consider adding something about appendixes to the W3C
manual of style.
http://www.w3.org/2001/06/manual/
--
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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