XInclude 1.0 REC - Question re somewhat contradictory stmts from Stacie Ahwai-Chang on 2005-02-18 (www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org from February 2005)

From: Stacie Ahwai-Chang <ahwais@ca.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:13:11 +0000
To: www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org
Message-ID: <OF32E50EDC.D91A664F-ON85256FAC.0073B6C6-85256FAC.00748296@ca.ibm.com>

I have a question re XInclude 1.0 REC: 

In  section 3.1, for the description of the href attribute, it states that 
'If the href attribute is absent when parse="xml", the xpointer attribute 
must be present.'  However, in section 4.1, it says that 'An 
implementation may choose to treat any or all absences of a value of the 
href attribute as resource errors.'  The first stmt is a strong one but 
the 2nd appears contradictory.  So, can an implementation really choose to 
treat all absences of a value for href as a resource error, or should it 
be a fatal error?    ...Stacie 

Regards,
Stacie Ahwai-Chang
IBM Toronto Laboratory, XML Parser Development 
e-mail: ahwais@ca.ibm.com

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