ISSUE-189: Clarify validation report trigger in section 3

validation trigger

Clarify validation report trigger in section 3

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CLOSED

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Raised by:

Karen Coyle

Opened on:

2016-10-09

Description:

The section on the validation report implies that it is the validation process itself that triggers a validation report. However, there has been discussion that a validation report is only created when the validation process concludes that the focus node does NOT obey the defined constraints. This is not clear in the section, which says only: "The validation report is the result of the validation process and includes a set of zero or more validation results." It isn't clear that "validation results" means reporting on focus nodes that do not obey the constraints (if that is what is intended).

Also, in the terminology entry on constraints, it says: "Constraints can also have non-validating properties (such as names and default values) that do not lead to validation results." This again implies that all validating properties result in a validation report, without mention of the results of the comparison between the constraints and the focus node.

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1. Proposal to close ISSUE-189 (from kontokostas@informatik.uni-leipzig.de on 2016-11-13)
2. shapes-ISSUE-189 (validation trigger): Clarify validation report trigger in section 3 (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2016-10-09)

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