The use of the word "element" is ambiguous. Is this to mean XML elements (but not attributes, character content, etc.) Or does this mean an element of the Standard, in the usage of ISO Directives, Part 2

Clarify the use of the word "element" perhaps by saying "XML element" if that is what is meant.

- Part 1, Section 2.6 "Interoperability Guidelines"

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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment FR-0002 (Modified: 2007-12-07) Agreed; the following changes will be made: Part 1, §2.3, page 3, lines 11­17 1. Schemas and an associated validation procedure for validating document syntax against those schemas. (The validation procedure includes un-zipping, locating files, processing the extensibility XML elements and attributes, and XML Schema validation.) 2. Additional syntax constraints in written form, wherever these constraints cannot feasibly be expressed in the schema language. 3. Descriptions of XML element semantics. The semantics of an XML element refers to its intended interpretation by a human being. Part 1, §2.6, page 4, lines 1­7 any behaviors that would, without that documentation, appear to violate the semantics of document XML elements. Together, the application and documentation should satisfy the following conditions. 1. The application need not implement operations on all XML elements defined in this Standard. However, if it does implement an operation on a given XML element, then that operation should use semantics for that XML element that are consistent with this Standard. 2. If the application moves, adds, modifies, or removes XML element instances with the effect of altering document semantics, it should declare the behavior in its documentation. Similar Comments: DE-0123 , DK-0065 , DK-0067 , GB-0024 , GB-0028 , KE-0011 , KE-0013 , PT-0018 , PT-0020 , US-0256 , US-0257