Elwyn Davies <elwynd at dial dot pipex dot com> wrote:
The use of 'MUST' in many places but almost always 'may' is IMO
confusing. I think the problem is that the normative language is
(AFAICS) used to constrain the semantics of the XML schema - it isn't
about protocol behaviour. Now this is a reasonable use for this sort
of language but I think that at least some of the 'may's should also
be MAY.
We may want to add this as a data point in the continuing debate over
whether non-uppercased auxiliary verbs carry the same normative RFC 2119
meaning as uppercased ones.
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