11<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
22<html lang="en">
3- <!-- $Id: conform.src,v 2.7 1998-02-18 23:38:38 ijacobs Exp $ -->
3+ <!-- $Id: conform.src,v 2.8 1998-02-19 01:05:35 ijacobs Exp $ -->
44<HEAD>
55<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
66<TITLE>Conformance: requirements and recommendations</TITLE>
@@ -16,10 +16,9 @@ agents.
1616
1717<P>The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
1818"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
19- document are to be interpreted as described in <a rel="biblioentry"
20- href="./refs.html#ref-RFC2119" class="normref">[RFC2119]</a>. However, for
21- readability, these words do not appear in all uppercase letters in
22- this specification.
19+ document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 (see
20+ [[RFC2119]]). However, for readability, these words do not appear in
21+ all uppercase letters in this specification.
2322
2423<P>At times, the authors of this specification recommend good practice
2524for authors and user agents. These recommendations are not normative
@@ -59,9 +58,7 @@ document (e.g., HTML, XML, etc.).
5958
6059<P>The primary syntactic constructs of the document language are
6160called <span class="index-def"
62- title="element"><em>elements,</em></span> (an SGML term, see <a
63- rel="biblioentry" href="./refs.html#ref-ISO8879"
64- class="normref">[ISO8879]</a>). Most CSS style sheet rules refer to
61+ title="element"><em>elements,</em></span> (an SGML term, see [[ISO8879]]). Most CSS style sheet rules refer to
6562these elements and specify rendering information for them. Examples
6663of elements in HTML include "P" (for paragraphs), "TABLE"
6764(for creating tables), "OL" (for creating ordered lists), etc.
@@ -81,15 +78,14 @@ Rendered content may also be <span class="index-def" title="alternate
8178text"> <a name="alternate-text"><dfn>alternate text</dfn></a></span>
8279for an element (e.g., the value of the HTML "alt" attribute).
8380
84- <dt><dfn><strong><a name="doctree">Document tree</a></strong></dfn></dt>
85- <dd>User agents transform a document written in the document language
86- into a <dfn>document tree</dfn> where every element except one has
87- exactly one <span class="index-def" title="parent">parent</span>
88- element. (See the SGML (<a href="refs.html#ref-ISO8879"
89- class="normref">[ISO8879]</a>) and XML (<a href="refs.html#ref-XML10"
90- class="normref">[XML10]</a>) specifications for the definition of
91- parent.) The one exception is the <span class="index-def"
92- title="root"><dfn>root</dfn></span> element, which has no parent.
81+ <dt><dfn><strong><a name="doctree">Document
82+ tree</a></strong></dfn></dt> <dd>User agents transform a document
83+ written in the document language into a <dfn>document tree</dfn> where
84+ every element except one has exactly one <span class="index-def"
85+ title="parent">parent</span> element. (See the SGML specification for
86+ the definition of parent ([[ISO8879]]).) The one exception is the <span
87+ class="index-def" title="root"><dfn>root</dfn></span> element, which
88+ has no parent.
9389
9490<P>An element A is called an <span class="index-def"
9591title="ancestor"><dfn>ancestor</dfn></span> of an element B, if either
@@ -251,20 +247,16 @@ authors and users must not rely on specific error recovery behavior.
251247<H2><span class="index-def" title="text/css"><a
252248name="text-css">The text/css content type</a></span></H2>
253249
254- <p>CSS style sheets that exist in separate
255- files are sent over the Internet as a sequence of bytes accompanied by
256- encoding information (see <a rel="biblioentry"
257- href="./refs.html#ref-HTML40">[HTML40]</a>, chapter 5). The structure
258- of the transmission, termed a <span class="index-def" title="message
259- entity"><a name="message-entity"><dfn>message entity,</dfn></a></span>
260- is defined by <a rel="biblioentry" href="./refs.html#ref-RFC2045"
261- class="normref">[RFC2045]</a> and <a rel="biblioentry"
262- href="refs.html#ref-RFC2068" class="normref">[RFC2068]</a>. A message
250+ <p>CSS style sheets that exist in separate files are sent over the
251+ Internet as a sequence of bytes accompanied by encoding information
252+ (see [[HTML40]], chapter 5). The structure of the transmission,
253+ termed a <span class="index-def" title="message entity"><a
254+ name="message-entity"><dfn>message entity,</dfn></a></span> is defined
255+ by RFC 2045 and RFC 2068 (see [[RFC2045]] and [[RFC2068]]). A message
263256entity with a content type of "text/css" represents an independent CSS
264257document.
265258
266- <P>The text/css content type is defined in <a rel="biblioentry"
267- href="refs.html#ref-RFCCSS" class="normref">[RFCCSS]</a>.
259+ <P>The text/css content type is defined in RFC ??? (see [[RFCCSS]]).
268260
269261<!-- To be completed by an RFC -IJ -->
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