Changeset 879 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p4-conditional.html

Timestamp:

23/07/10 09:19:25 (11 years ago)

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

change citing style to match RFC Editor expectations (see <​http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-style-guide/rfc-style>, Section 3.3)

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• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p4-conditional.html (modified) (2 diffs)

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p4-conditional.html

@@ -638 +638 @@
 </pre><p id="rfc.section.2.p.3">A "strong entity-tag" <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be shared by two representations of a resource only if they are equivalent by octet equality.
       </p>
-      <p id="rfc.section.2.p.4">A "weak entity-tag," indicated by the "W/" prefix, <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be shared by two representations of a resource only if the representations are equivalent and could be substituted for each
+      <p id="rfc.section.2.p.4">A "weak entity-tag", indicated by the "W/" prefix, <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be shared by two representations of a resource only if the representations are equivalent and could be substituted for each
          other with no significant change in semantics. A weak entity-tag can only be used for weak comparison.
       </p>
@@ -711 +711 @@
          one normally would expect that if the representation (including both representation header fields and representation body)
          changes in any way, then the associated validator would change as well. If this is true, then we call this validator a "strong
-         validator."
+         validator".
       </p>
       <p id="rfc.section.4.p.2">However, there might be cases when a server prefers to change the validator only on semantically significant changes, and
          not when insignificant aspects of the representation change. A validator that does not always change when the representation
-         changes is a "weak validator."
-      </p>
-      <p id="rfc.section.4.p.3">An entity-tag is normally a strong validator, but the protocol provides a mechanism to tag an entity-tag as "weak." One can
+         changes is a "weak validator".
+      </p>
+      <p id="rfc.section.4.p.3">An entity-tag is normally a strong validator, but the protocol provides a mechanism to tag an entity-tag as "weak". One can
          think of a strong validator as one that changes whenever the sequence of bits in a representation changes, while a weak value
          changes whenever the meaning of a representation changes. Alternatively, one can think of a strong validator as part of an