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                                                 2001-04-04   **ISO/**
                                                              **22250-1**
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| e | s | gur | ditorial) |                  |         | submitted    |
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| F |   |     | General   | Disapproval,     |         |              |
| R |   |     |           | because          |         |              |
| A |   |     |           | specifications   |         |              |
| N |   |     |           | to describe      |         |              |
| C |   |     |           | markup languages |         |              |
| E |   |     |           | containing a XML |         |              |
|   |   |     |           | scheme should    |         |              |
|   |   |     |           | not be given in  |         |              |
|   |   |     |           | a standard.      |         |              |
|   |   |     |           |                  |         |              |
|   |   |     |           | We would change  |         |              |
|   |   |     |           | our negative     |         |              |
|   |   |     |           | vote in a        |         |              |
|   |   |     |           | positive one if  |         |              |
|   |   |     |           | this document    |         |              |
|   |   |     |           | was published as |         |              |
|   |   |     |           | a technical      |         |              |
|   |   |     |           | report.          |         |              |
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| **M | *   | *   | **   | **Comment**  | **Proposed   | **           |
| emb | *Cl | *Pa | Type |              | change**     | Observations |
| er\ | aus | rag | of   |              |              | of the       |
| bod | e/\ | rap | c    |              |              | secretariat\ |
| y** | su  | h/\ | omme |              |              | **on each    |
|     | bcl | Fi  | nt** |              |              | comment      |
|     | aus | gur | (g   |              |              | submitted    |
|     | e** | e/T | ener |              |              |              |
|     |     | abl | al/\ |              |              |              |
|     |     | e** | tech |              |              |              |
|     |     |     | nica |              |              |              |
|     |     |     | l/ed |              |              |              |
|     |     |     | itor |              |              |              |
|     |     |     | ial) |              |              |              |
+=====+=====+=====+======+==============+==============+==============+
| NL  |     |     | Gen  | The Dutch    |              |              |
|     |     |     | eral | national     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | body is      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | pleased by   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the Japanese |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | proposal for |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the RELAX    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | standard,    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | and regrets  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | that it has  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | not been     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | able to take |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | proper time  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | to give the  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | proposal the |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | careful      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | attendanc it |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | deserves. It |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | apologises   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | for making   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | remarks at a |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | moment       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | wehere there |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | is little or |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | no time to   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | discuss      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | them. Most   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | remarks are  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | editorial,   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | some however |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | are          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | fundamental, |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | especially   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | where this   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | proposed     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | I            |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | nternational |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Standard     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | refers to    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | and relies   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | on a Working |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Draft        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Re           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | commendation |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | of the W3C.  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | For the      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | datatypes,   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | RELAX relies |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | on the       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Working      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Draft of XML |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Schema Part  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 2.W3C        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Working      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Drafts are   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | not stable   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | and should   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | not be the   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | fundaments   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | of an IS. We |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | can support  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | this         |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | standard     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | only if      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | a\. all      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | references   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | to XML       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Schema are   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | changed to   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | informative, |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | and RELAX    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | specifies    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | its own      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | datatypes,   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | or           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | b\. when XML |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Schema 2 is  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | a finished   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | rec          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | ommendation, |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in which     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | case RELAX   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | should refer |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | explicitly   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | to that      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | finished     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | re           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | commendation |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | and should   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | not mention  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | any          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | datatypes    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | itself, nor  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in clause    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 7.2 or in    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Annex B2.    |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| NL  |     | An  |      | Remarks 7d   |              |              |
|     |     | nex |      | and 7e       |              |              |
|     |     | A   |      | identify     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | errors in    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Annex A that |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | should be    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | resolved.    |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
|     | Cla |     |      | References.  |              |              |
|     | use |     |      | A direct     |              |              |
|     | 2,  |     |      | reference to |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | ISO 8879,    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | SGML, should |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | be added,    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | since clause |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 3.5.1 refers |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | to that IS   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | \[see remark |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 3\]. The     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | indirect     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | reference    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | through the  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | reference of |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | XML 1.0 is   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | not          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | sufficient   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | to resolve   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | clause 3.5.1 |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | easily.      |              |              |
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|     | Cla |     |      | References.  |              |              |
|     | use |     |      | XML          |              |              |
|     | 2   |     |      | Information  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Set and XML  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Schema Part  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 2 are        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | refered to   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | as Working   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Drafts.      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | These should |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | and can not  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | be the base  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | of an        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | I            |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | nternational |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Standard;    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | W3C          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | explicitly   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | warns        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | against any  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | actual usage |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | of           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | Drafts. The  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | link to      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Schema Part  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 2 however    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | does not     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | point to a   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Working      |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | specific     |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | to the       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Current      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Version,     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | whatever     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | (on May 1st  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 2001 it      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | happens to   |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | DTR 22250-1  |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | was          |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | B. to \"the  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | most recent  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | version of   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Recom        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | mendation\", |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in which     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | case we      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | would rely   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | on the       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | W3C\'s       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | willingness  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | to provide   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | backwards    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | co           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | mpatibility, |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | and          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in which     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | case all     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | normative    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | references   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | to datatype  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in RELAX     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | should be    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | removed, to  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | avoid        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | ambiguity.   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Since we     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | rather       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | don\'t want  |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | nambigiuosly |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | specified    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | version that |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | was known to |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the voters   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | at the time  |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | so we        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | propose to   |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | Working      |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | 2000-09-22,  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | since that   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | was the      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | version that |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | was known at |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the time     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | this IS was  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | written.     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | The fact     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | that all     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | datatypes    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | used in      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | RELAX are    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | mentioned    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | explicitly   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in clause 7  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | makes it     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | easier to    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | make the     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | reference to |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | XML Schema   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Part 2 only  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | informative  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | \[see remark |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 6\].         |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| NL  | Cla |     |      | tag name.    |              |              |
|     | use |     |      | Refers to    |              |              |
|     | 3.  |     |      | ISO 8879     |              |              |
|     | 5.1 |     |      | which is not |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in the list  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | of           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | references.  |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| NL  | Cla |     |      | Notations.   |              |              |
|     | use |     |      | Example 1    |              |              |
|     | 4   |     |      | describes a  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | content      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | model with   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | \"finally an |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | optional     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | b            |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | ackmatter\", |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | so in the    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | content      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | model        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | fragment     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | \"ba         |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | ckmatter\*\" |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | should be    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | changed to   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | \"ba         |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | ckmatter?\", |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | otherwise    |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | backmatter   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | is also      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | repeatable,  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | which is     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | only common  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | for cats     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | with nine    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | tails        |              |              |
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|     | Cla |     |      | Shouldn\'t   |              |              |
|     | use |     |      | the          |              |              |
|     | 5.2 |     |      | definitions  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in clause    |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | placed in    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | clause 3,    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Terms and    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | definitions? |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| NL  |     | Cla |      | If XML       |              |              |
|     |     | use |      | Schema Part  |              |              |
|     |     | 7   |      | 2 stays a    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | normative    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | reference,   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | clause 7.2   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | is           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | redundant,   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | with all     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | maintanance  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | risks. If    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Clause 7     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | stays        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | normative,   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | there is     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | a possible   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | conflict     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | with XML     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Schema Part  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 2 (f.i., in  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the previous |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | working      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | draft (March |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 16) the      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | \"decimal\"  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | type was     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | accidentally |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | renamed in   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | \"number\",  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | so which     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | datatype     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | applied to   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | RELAX on     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | March 17     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 2001?).      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Either the   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | reference to |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | XML Schema   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | or clause    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 7.2 should   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | therefore be |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | normative to |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | informative. |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Our          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | preference   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | is to make   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | reference to |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | XML Schema   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | informative  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | \[see remark |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 2\], so that |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | RELAX can    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | define       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | itself       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | completely.  |              |              |
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|     |     | An  |      | Annex A: DTD |              |              |
|     |     | nex |      | for RELAX    |              |              |
|     |     | A   |      | Core         |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | a\. is this  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Annex        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Normative or |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Informative? |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | b\. The DTD  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | refers to    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | \"data       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | types.dtd\", |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | which is a   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | local file   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | with unknown |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | content.     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | That should  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | be a URI to  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | appropriate  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | version of   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | that DTD.    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | c\. The DTD  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | is           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | unparseable, |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | since it     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | refers to    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | parameter    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | entity       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | \"%a         |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | nnotation;\" |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | which is not |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | defined in   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | this DTD.    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | The          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | dataypes.dtd |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | from XML     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Schema Type  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 2 (as it was |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | on           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 2001-05-01)  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | doesn\'t     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | define it    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | either, but  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | uses it as   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | well. This   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | is not       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | strange,     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | since this   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | DTD is not   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | intented for |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the usage as |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | made in      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | RELAX        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | (although it |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | is intended  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | for a        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | similar      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | usage).      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | datatype.dtd |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | explicitly   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | states:      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | This DTD     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | cannot be    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | used on its  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | own, it is   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | intended     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | only for     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | i            |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | ncorporation |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | XM           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | LSchema.dtd, |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | q.v.         |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | A parameter  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | entity       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | declaration  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | for          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | %annotation; |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | should       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | therefore be |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | added to the |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | RELAX.DTD.   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | d\. The      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | elements     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | annotation   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | and          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | d            |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | ocumentation |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | (as used in  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the RELAX    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | module       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | for RELAX    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | core) should |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | be defined   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in the Relax |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | DTD, as they |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | are in the   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | XML          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Schema DTD   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | \[see also   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | remark 8b\]  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | e\. The DTD  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | would be     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | simpler in   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | terms of     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | unnecessary  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | nesting      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | groups if    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | brackets in  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | definition   |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | parameter    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | entities     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | %clause,     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | %rule,       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | %particle    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | and          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | %clauseBody  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | were removed |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | f\. The way  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | parameter    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | entity       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | %repeatable  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | is referred  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | to, suggests |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | that the     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | leading and  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | ending white |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | space,       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | inlcuding    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the record   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | delimiters,  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in the       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | replacement  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | text is not  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | necessary.   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Readability  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | would be     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | improved by  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | removing     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the leading  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | and ending   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | white space  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in the       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | parameter    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | literal in   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the          |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | %repeatable  |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
|     |     | An  |      | Annex B.     |              |              |
|     |     | nex |      |              |              |              |
|     |     | B   |      | a\. is this  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Annex        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Normative or |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Informative? |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | b\. The      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | module is    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | not valid    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | XML, since   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | it uses      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | instances of |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | element      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | typ          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | esannotation |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | and          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | d            |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | ocumentation |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | that are not |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | declared in  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the RELAX    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | core DTD.    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | c\. Annex B2 |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | defines      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Datatypes,   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | that are     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | also defined |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in XML       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Schema Part  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 2. Which     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | takes        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | precedence,  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | if there is  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | a conflict?  |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+

+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| BSI | G   |     | Gen  | In general   |              |              |
|     | ene |     | eral | the text is  |              |              |
|     | ral |     |      | too sparse   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | and provides |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | no           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | informative  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | examples     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | that help    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | readers to   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | grasp the    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | context in   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | which        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | actions are  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | taking       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | place.       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Without      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | these        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | examples     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | much of the  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | text is      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | meaningless. |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | ISO          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | technical    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | reports are  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | meant to be  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | informative  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in nature.   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | While sparse |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | text is      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | sometimes    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | acceptable   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | for          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | standards    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | for which    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | explanatory  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | matter is    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | provided in  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | associated   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | technical    |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | is generally |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the case     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | that sparse  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | standards    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | are not used |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | too          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | difficult    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | for users to |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | understand.  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | (This report |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | could not be |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | published as |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | a W3C report |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | as it fails  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | to follow    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the rules of |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | compr        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | ehensibility |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | laid down by |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | W3C. I would |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | expect it to |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | for the same |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | reasons.)    |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | In general   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | RELAX is a   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | subset of    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | XML Schemas, |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | and relies   |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | a detailed   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | knowledge of |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | pecification |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | related      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | standards    |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | Document     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Object Model |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | and the XML  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Infoset      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | (though it   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | fails to     |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | terminology  |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | the official |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | terminology  |              |              |
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+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
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|     |     |     | ical | are          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | inherited    |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | 8879 should  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | be           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | acknowledged |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | by reference |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | does not     |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | are now      |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | all          |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | standards.   |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
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|     |   * |     | ical | pre-defined  |              |              |
|     | *5. |     |      | "built-in"   |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | which fail   |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      | constrain    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the built-in |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | datatypes,   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | using        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | patterns,    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | etc, and to  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | build        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | datatypes    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | that are     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | extensions   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | to built-in  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | datatypes.   |              |              |
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| BSI | *   |     | t    | The term     |              |              |
|     | *5. |     | echn | "tag" as     |              |              |
|     | 7** |     | ical | defined here |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | conflicts    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | with that in |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 8879, where  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | it is        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | defined as   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | "descriptive |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | markup",     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | which is the |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | sense it     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | which it is  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | used         |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | throughout   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the XML      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | s            |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | pecification |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | (and is the  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | sense used   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | definitions  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | of phrases   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | containing   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the word tag |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in the       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Definitions  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | clause).     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | The second   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | paragraph of |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | this section |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | is not       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | readily      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | com          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | prehensible. |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | (The word    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | "condition"  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | has no       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | previously   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | defined      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | meaning.)    |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| BSI | **5 |     | t    | The          |              |              |
|     | .8. |     | echn | restriction  |              |              |
|     | 1** |     | ical | that         |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | elementRules |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | and          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | hedgeRules   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | may not      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | share a      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | label        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | suggests     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | they are     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | being        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | u            |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | nnecessarily |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | being        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | constrained  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | to form a    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | single       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | namespace.   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Constraining |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | elementRules |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | sharing      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | labels to a  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | single       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | built-in     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | datatype     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | will         |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | restrict     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | their        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | application. |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| BSI | *   |     | e    | The last two |              |              |
|     | *6. |     | dito | URLs in this |              |              |
|     | 1** |     | rial | section are  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | incorrect.   |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| BSI | *   |     | t    | #####        |              |              |
|     | *6. |     | echn |              |              |              |
|     | 4** |     | ical | See comment  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | ref 5.7 on   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | i            |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | nappropriate |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | application  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | of the term  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | tag. A       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | better name  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | would be     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | "conditions" |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| BSI | *   |     | t    | #####        |              |              |
|     | *6. |     | echn |              |              |              |
|     | 8** |     | ical | ElementRules |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | cannot       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | contain      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | "bags"       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | whereby all  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | element must |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | occur but    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the sequence |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | is undefined |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | (viz & in    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | SGML or      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | \<all\> in   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | XML schemas) |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| BSI | **6 |     | t    | #####        |              |              |
|     | .10 |     | echn |              |              |              |
|     | et  |     | ical | It should be |              |              |
|     | c** |     |      | made clear   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | that "" is   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the default  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | value for    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | occurs. The  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | meaning of   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | permitted    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | symbols      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | needs to be  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | defined as   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | these        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | definitions  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | are not      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | referenced   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in 2, and    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | are          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | currently    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | not defined  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | until 6.13.  |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| BSI | **  |     | t    | Heading is   |              |              |
|     | 6.1 |     | echn | incorrect    |              |              |
|     | 2** |     | ical |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Why in last  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | label in     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | sequence     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | I~1n1~       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | instead of   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | I~1n~? (Same |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | applies for  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | subsequent   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | lists.)      |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| BSI | *   |     | t    | #####        |              |              |
|     | *7. |     | echn |              |              |              |
|     | 2.1 |     | ical | There should |              |              |
|     | 0** |     |      | be some      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | mechanism    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | for using ID |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | attributes   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | as labels.   |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| BSI | *   |     | t    | As RELAX     |              |              |
|     | *7. |     | echn | provides no  |              |              |
|     | 2.1 |     | ical | mechanism    |              |              |
|     | 3** |     |      | for defining |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | notations    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the last     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | paragraph is |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | nonsense.    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | (Or are we   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | to presume   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | that RELAX   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | only works   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | when a DTD   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | has already  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | been defined |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | for the      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | relevant     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | data         |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | instance? If |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | so this must |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | be very      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | clearly and  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | u            |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | nambiguously |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | stated at    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the start of |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | document.)   |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| BSI | *   |     | t    | Why are      |              |              |
|     | *7. |     | echn | Patterns not |              |              |
|     | 4** |     | ical | also         |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | inherited    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | from XML     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Schema Part  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 2?           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Without any  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | examples of  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the use of   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | facets any   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | where in the |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | technical    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | report the   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | statements   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | in this      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | section are  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | generally    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | meaningless. |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+

+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
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+=====+=====+=====+======+==============+==============+==============+
| USA | P   |     | Gen  | 1\. RELAX in |              |              |
|     | art |     | eral | its current  |              |              |
|     | 1:  |     |      | form is      |              |              |
|     | RE  |     |      | purely for   |              |              |
|     | LAX |     |      | XML and      |              |              |
|     | C   |     |      | logically    |              |              |
|     | ore |     |      | belongs in   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the W3C, not |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the ISO.     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | Text should  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | be added to  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | show its     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | a            |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | pplicability |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | to ISO 8879  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | (e.g., as an |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | alternative  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | notation for |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | document     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | type         |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | d            |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | efinitions), |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | if indeed it |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | has such     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | ap           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | plicability. |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | (Item 2      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | below would  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | also help in |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | this         |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | regard.)     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 2\. Also,    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | there is no  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | provision    |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | for          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | round-trip   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | lossless     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | conversion   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | between      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | RELAX schema |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | definitions  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | and DTDs     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | with respect |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | to           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | datatypes.   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | The RELAX TR |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | should       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | include an   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | equivalent   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | DTD          |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | re           |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | presentation |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | of datatypes |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | that is      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | capable of   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | being        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | verified     |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | with         |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | existing SAX |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | and DOM      |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | impl         |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | ementations. |              |              |
|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | 3\. Because  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | this TR is   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | coming from  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | an outside   |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | source where |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | it is freely |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | available on |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | the WWW, it  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | should       |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | continue to  |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | be available |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | after        |              |              |
|     |     |     |      | adoption.    |              |              |
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|     |     |     |      |              |              |              |
+-----+-----+-----+------+--------------+--------------+--------------+