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Re: "Non-Normative"

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• Subject: Re: "Non-Normative"
• From: Norman Walsh <ndw@n...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:01:04 -0500
• In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10302181430210.8710-100000@gris> (GregoryMurphy's message of "Tue, 18 Feb 2003 14:38:30 -0800 (PST)")
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/ Gregory Murphy <Gregory.Murphy@e...> was heard to say:
| 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?

Informative (but not definitional). Explanatory (but not
definitional). Ancillary. Incidental. Unnecessary. Sometimes useful.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

- -- 
Norman.Walsh@S...    | Clearness is so eminently one of the
XML Standards Architect | characteristics of truth that often it even
Web Tech. and Standards | passes for truth itself.--Joubert
Sun Microsystems, Inc.  | 
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