- From: Lynne Rosenthal <lynne.rosenthal@nist.gov>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:34:04 -0400
- To: david_marston@us.ibm.com, www-qa@w3.org
Good point and qualification - example. We can include it in the discussion of Specification category and Classes of products. As for the definition, we can add, "A specification may address more than one category." lynne >Lynne Rosenthal proposed this definition: > >Specification category: the generic name for the type of specification > >and the technology it describes. > >I would modify it to allow for specs like XForms that address more >than one category. The above definition is rather generic, but it's hard >to be concrete about the category for abstract models, which includes >such specs as InfoSet and XQuery Data Model. > >(Part of) the rationale for this term is that spec editors and >reviewers should think about characteristics that are common to all >technologies in a category. For example, all specs that present an XML >vocabulary need a namespace URI for that vocabulary, and typically >suggest a favored namespace prefix also. All specs that present an API >follow certain norms for API description, and so on. >.................David Marston
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