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The definition of "potentially consuming" in section C Glossary reads: <quote> potentially consuming An operand is potentially consuming if either or both of the following conditions applies: </quote> In other words, the important part of the definition, after the colon, has disappeared.
(and shouldn't it be "apply" instead of "applies"?)
Yes I've been frustrated by this limitation in the markup design for a long time: we don't have the ability for a definition to span multiple paragraphs. I have a feeling some of the other specs have solved the issue, I need to find out how.
The serialization spec has many definitions that end in mid-sentence like this, but I noticed that they've solved the problem in section 9 for the definition of serializing "to a JSON string" which is a multi-paragraph definition. So we should find out how they did it.
In the latest editor's draft I have fixed this using the markup suggested in bug #29516. I haven't yet committed the DTD changes needed to validate this markup; the DTDs are shared documents and consensus is needed to change them. For some reason I don't like "either or both of these conditions apply" (it just sounds wrong although the text books say it's right), so I changed it to "at least one of these conditions applies".
I can see the fix in the current internal draft and it looks correct, should we close this bug report?
I'll close it when I have done a few more tests to ensure that the stylesheet changes have no adverse effects on other specs, and when I have committed all the changes.
The DTD and stylesheet extensions to handle multi-paragraph glossary definitions have now been committed.
I checked the diff version and the normal version of the internal WD's, they both look good and I didn't see other definitions in this section being disrupted (some got better though). I think this can be closed now. Note: this change influenced the definition of "combined posture", "tail position" and "non-positional predicate", which previously all ended with a colon (:) and a missing list paragraph, but are now complete with the full definition of the text.