Remove unneeded elements from document conformance

Problem statement / use cases

• the draft currently includes several elements from legacy usage but with changed semantics (e.g.: SMALL, I, and B )
• the draft includes the EMBED element which though important for implementation conformance, is redundant for document conformance and inferior to the alternatives because it cannot support fallback content
• changing the semantics of elements without versioning creates an permanent state of indecipherable semantics for those elements

Proposed solutions

• Remove both the SMALL and EMBED elements from document conformance
• Maintain the B and I elements in document conformance, but also maintain their long-time semantics of meaning presentationally bold and italics typefaces respectively
• perhaps H2–H6 heading elements might also be removed from document conformance

Discussion and evaluation

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