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Bug 1603 - no definition of "may", etc.
Summary: no definition of "may", etc.
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Formal Semantics 1.0 (show other bugs)
Version: Last Call drafts
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jerome Simeon
QA Contact: Mailing list for public feedback on specs from XSL and XML Query WGs
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Reported: 2005-07-14 23:50 UTC by Fred Zemke
Modified: 2005-09-06 13:00 UTC (History)
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Description Fred Zemke 2005-07-14 23:50:36 UTC 
2. Preliminaries
This section does not include the customary definitions of terms
such as "may", etc.
Comment 1 Jim Melton 2005-07-19 23:23:16 UTC 
The Formal Semantics document does not use words such as "must", "may", and
"should" in the sense of RFC 2119.  Instead, FS refers to the specifications
that use it (e.g., XQuery 1.0, XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0) for conformance criteria. 
Those documents spell out the meaning of these words, which are then imposed on
Formal Semantics wherever appropriate. 

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