[whatwg] WA1: Conformance requirements

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Tue Apr 22 03:38:58 PDT 2008


On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Aankhen wrote:
> 
> > On 3/11/06, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > [snip]
> > I've reworded the paragraph like this:
> >
> >   <p>Some conformance requirements are phrased as requirements on
> >   elements, attributes, methods or objects. Such requirements fall
> >   into two categories; those describing content model restrictions,
> >   and those describing implementatino behaviour.
> 
> Minor change: that should probably be a full colon there rather than a 
> semi-colon.

Fixed.


> > The former category of requirements are requirements on documents and 
> > authoring tools. The second category are requirements on user 
> > agents.</p>
> 
> Is there a need to say "of requirements" after "category"?  It seems 
> unnecessary.  Perhaps this might do:
> 
>  "The former category describes requirements on documents and
>  authoring tools.  The second describes requirements on user
>  agents."

I recommend not worrying too much about this level of detail of the 
wording. :-)

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