- From: Daniel Veillard <daniel@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 02:03:42 +0200
- To: J S <kookaburran@hotmail.com>
- Cc: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 12:14:57PM -0400, J S wrote: > In XLink 1.0, the following statement in 5.1.5 uses "may" in the RFC2119 > sense, but this usage seems odd: > > "To ease XLink processing, document creators may wish to define linkbase > arcs near the beginning of a document". > > If this use of "may" is consistent with the definition provided by RFC2119, > the statement says "It is truly optional to wish to define linkbase > arcs...". > > Perhaps a more sensible reading, from the perspective of RFC2119, is as > follows: > > "To ease XLink processing, document creators may define linkbase arcs near > the beginning of a document". Hum, right. We were extra-cautious about the fact this is not a requirement and the wording could be improved. However I think it still conveys the right message, so it is limited to an editorial problem. thanks for the report, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network http://redhat.com/products/network/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ Sep 17-18 2001 Brussels Red Hat TechWorld http://www.redhat-techworld.com
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