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[Ken Holman]

At 2007-09-05 13:15 +0100, Mason, Howard \(UK\) wrote: > From the perspective of our work on information exchange, >interoperability will require conformance testing that a document which >purports to comply with the specification is valid, and that an >application which purports to accept a genericode document as input >successfully interprets that document as intended - both reading the >syntax and interpreting the semantics. I agree these two are distinct ... especially given my desire to claim the files I publish are conformant (regardless of who uses them) and Tony's desire to claim applications using a genericode file are conformant. >You may also have a third case, >where you need to check that an application which purports to generate >genericode documents does in fact produce compliant syntax and >semantics. I think that is covered by the first of the two just by looking at the end result as being a conformant file. >