- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 09:36:49 -0400
- To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com
- Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>
Noah, On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 19:50 -0400, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote: [ . . . ] > I also believe the converse: > > "If a given document never has more than one possible meaning when > interpreted per all versions of a language specification (though it may be > illegal per some of them), then neither in band nor out of band version > indicators are strictly needed." If the document is stored such that it may be viewed much later, then the original producer of the document would h Are you excluding cases where documents are stored? A document producer can only know about versions that exist at the time when the document is produced (or originally transmitted). But if the document is stored and viewed much later, there may be newer versions of the language specification by the time the document is consumed. David Booth
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