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Bug 29839 - [SER31] Capitalization of Node
Summary: [SER31] Capitalization of Node
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Serialization 3.1 (show other bugs)
Version: Candidate Recommendation
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 editorial
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
QA Contact: Mailing list for public feedback on specs from XSL and XML Query WGs
URL: https://www.w3.org/XML/Group/qtspecs/...
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Reported: 2016-09-21 09:12 UTC by Tim Mills
Modified: 2016-10-14 13:13 UTC (History)
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Description Tim Mills 2016-09-21 09:12:08 UTC 
In 

[Definition: The term Node is defined as part of Section 6 Nodes DM31. There are seven kinds of nodes in the data model: document, element, attribute, text, namespace, processing instruction, and comment.]

Node is in title case.  All other definitions use lower case, i.e. it should be

[Definition: The term node is defined as part of Section 6 Nodes DM31. There are seven kinds of nodes in the data model: document, element, attribute, text, namespace, processing instruction, and comment.]
Comment 1 Tim Mills 2016-09-21 09:13:57 UTC 
Furthermore, shouldn't it read

... seven kinds of node ...

rather than 

... seven kinds of nodes ...
Comment 2 Michael Kay 2016-09-21 10:56:17 UTC 
Could spend a long time debating comment #1:

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/5539/types-of-things-vs-types-of-thing
Comment 3 Andrew Coleman 2016-10-14 13:13:58 UTC 
Fixed #0, but left #1 as is.