[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

RE: About "Normative References"

• To: <collin@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: About "Normative References"
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:36:36 +0100
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <20030625115630.24393.qmail@s...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> 
> What does the "normative references" mean? Does the 
> "normative" specially refer to the standards made by W3C and 
> other organizations (like ISO, ITEF, etc. )?
> 
It's got nothing to do with who wrote the spec that's being referenced;
it's to do with whether what that spec says is considered a normative
part of the referencing spec. So for example XPath 1.0 refers
normatively to IEEE 754 for the definition of floating point arithmetic,
and non-normatively to the Java Language Specification for a useful
summary of IEEE 754.

Michael Kay

• References:
  • About "Normative References"
    • From: collin@s...

• Prev by Date: RE: Is an element's name metadata?
• Next by Date: Re: XML-escape string
• Previous by thread: Re: About "Normative References"
• Next by thread: What does the "authority" in <scheme>://<authority> mean?
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread