• To: "collin@s..." <collin@s...>
• Subject: Re: About "Normative References"
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 08:21:56 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <20030625115630.24393.qmail@s...>

> What does the "normative references" mean?

It means that the document being referred to is "part of" the standard
that is doing the reference.  Think of it as #include.

Normative means, "an official part of the spec."  Non-normative means,
"might be useful to you."
        /r$

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