Three spelling checking bugs that occur often in my documents:

1. The spell checker seems to not understand the double hyphen to 
separate
    an independent clause.  For example:

   "A key reference specified by the 'keyref' element--which has a 
'name' and
   'refer' attribute and contains a 'selector' and one or more 'field' 
elements."

   In the above, it treats "element--which" as one word.

2. It also tried to capitalize 'the' in the parenthetical example below:

    "Grouping commonly used attributes (e.g. the events attributes from 
XHTML)."

    I don't believe that 'the' should be capitalized.

3. It improperly identifies duplicate words across element boundaries.  
For
    example:

      <title>Using Attribute Groups</title>
      <contents>
      <ul>
      <li><p>Groups...</p></li>
      </ul>
      </contents>

    It would list the second 'Groups' as a duplicate.

-- Alex Milowski  

"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of 
the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics


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