Re: Definition of Document

I looked it up in Webster via "Do The Right Thing" (A really neat service
from Gerald Oskoboiny, maintainer of the Kinder Gentler Validator, sysadmin
at w3c and all-round nice Canadian) and the definition there seemed deficient
too. But it gives (among some things that do not really apply):

a writing conveying information
a material substance having on it a representation of thoughts by means of
some conventional mark or symbol

I think we can (and in practice already do) rely on the common understanding
of the term, broad and ambiguous as that necessarily is, and live without our
own definition.

Charles McCN

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Jutta Treviranus wrote:

  I've read through all the other W3C documents. Most of them take the
  approach of defining element, attribute and property under document as
  well. As a result there are none that offer a more expanded definition of
  the term document on its own but only as it is made up of elements,
  attributes and properties.
  
  Ian you had a definition from the CSS document (which wasn't in their
  glossary) could you send that to the list so we can recycle it.
  
  Thanks Jutta
  

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