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[John Bokma]

"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> "John Bokma" <john at castleamber.com> wrote in message 
> news:Xns96F38418ADF38castleamber at 130.133.1.4...
>> Roedy Green <my_email_is_posted_on_my_website at munged.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On 18 Oct 2005 06:57:47 GMT, John Bokma <john at castleamber.com> wrote
>>> or quoted :
>>>
>>>>>>That an HTML standard (ISO/IEC 15445:2000) and an HTML
>>>>>>recommendation by w3c (4.01 for example) are two different things,
>>>>>>and mixing them up by calling both standards is a bad thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Because ... what are the consequences?
>>>>
>>>>If you mean if you are put in jail for 20 years, and tortured, none.
>>>
>>> No. ANY consequences.  You have not explained the downside.
>>
>> ISO HTML and HTML 4.01 differ. If you were asked to write a
>> validating parser for the HTML standard, (as in ISO), and you wrote
>> one for HTML 4.01 (as in recommendation), you made quite a mistake.
> 
> There are standards that conflict, and also recommendations that
> conflict. Why is confusing standard A with recommendation P worse than
> 
> 1.  confusing standard A with  standard B, or
> 2.  confusing recommendation P with  recommendation Q

Calling a recommendation a standard might confuse it with the actual ISO 
standard. Imagine one buys a validating parser that states "SUPPORTS ALL 
STANDARDS", and they actually meant it supports all w3c recommendations.

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