At 5:09 PM +1100 1/29/05, Eric Scheid wrote:
nitpickers welcome.

I have this spec text in my draft Pace...

   atom:head elements MAY contain one or more atom:foo elements, so
   long no two atom:foo elements have the same combination of
   atom:hreflang, xml:lang, or atom:type.

I also considered writing it like this...

   atom:head elements MAY contain one or more atom:foo elements, so
   long as they differ in the values they have for the attributes
   atom:hreflang, xml:lang, or atom:type.

I'm not comfortable with either wording. Seems clumsy.

The first seems quite clear to me, the second is clumsy and open to misinterpretation.


meta-question: should the spec even bother asserting this restriction?

Probably not without good justification.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium



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