- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:52:39 +0100
- To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Cc: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
* Norman Walsh wrote: >/ Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> was heard to say: >| * Norman Walsh wrote: >|>|>| http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xlink11-20050707/ section 3.3 requires >|>|>| implementations to perform "markup conformance testing". The draft does >|>|>| not define what it means to perform such testing, please change the >|>|>| draft such that this is clearly defined. >|>|> >|>|>Markup Conformance is described in Section 3.2. >|>| >|>| Yes. That does not cause "markup conformance testing" to be well-defined >|>| in any way though. >|> >|>I see your point. Would the following rewording of point 3 of Section >|>3.3 make things clearer? >|> >|> 3. it applies XLink semantics only to those elments which satisfy >|> the markup conformance criteria outlined in [3.2 Markup Confromance]. >| >| How is the XML Core Working Group going to test this? > >The only way we can, by looking for at least two implementations that >do the right thing with respect to this constraint. To be more precise, how is the XML Core Working Group going to test this without making non-compliant test markup and observing the behavior of the implementations? I assume doing that makes no sense to you since you don't http://www.w3.org/mid/87d5iykc2g.fsf@nwalsh.com define behavior in case of non-compliant markup. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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