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- Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:52:30 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4368 ------- Comment #1 from davep@iit.edu 2007-03-06 03:52 ------- (In reply to comment #0) > In a number of places in the spec, lists of constraints are introduced with > phrases like "the appropriate case among the following is [or, in some > cases, "must be"] true: ..." Usually, the items in the list are conditionals: > if X, then Y. > > Until just now, I thought that that meant "At most one of the following > items is expected to apply; that one expresses a constraint that must > be satisfied" and could be implemented by looking at each list item in > turn and ending the search when one was found where the condition holds > and the constraint in the then-clause was satisfied. I for one think that this should be the intent of that wording, and if a particular instance has more than one case true under the same circumstances it is an error in the spec in need of correction.
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