- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 09:47:41 -0500
- To: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- CC: W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
Paul Prescod wrote: > > Isn't the following text from the current XML spec a "normative > reference": "By definition, valid XML documents are conformant SGML > documents in the sense described in ISO standard 8879." Yes, that certainly looks like a normative reference to me. But the handling of references in the xml spec[1] is non-traditional: there's a touchy-feely "relationship to existing standards" section and section called "references" which is really a bibliography, but no a list of normative references. So the current draft[1] seems unclear on whether the reference to the SGML spec is normative. [1] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-xml-lang-970331.html -- Dan Connolly http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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