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"Non-Normative"

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• Subject: "Non-Normative"
• From: Gregory Murphy <Gregory.Murphy@e...>
• Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 14:38:30 -0800 (PST)

The term "non-normative" is used frequently in XML 1.0 and in related
specs. What a document means when it purports to be normative is clear to
me, but when a section is labled "non-normative", I know what it is not,
but not necessarily what it is.

Can someone offer paraphrase what the specs mean when they use this term?

// Gregory Murphy <Gregory.Murphy@s...>

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