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Re: [xml-dev] About "Normative References"

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To: "collin@seu.edu.cn" <collin@seu.edu.cn>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] About "Normative References"
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 08:21:56 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
In-reply-to: <20030625115630.24393.qmail@seu.edu.cn>

> 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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