[OASIS Issue Tracker] Created: (ODATA-381) Hanging paragraphs - all current csprd01 documents

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Hanging paragraphs - all current csprd01 documents
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                 Key: ODATA-381
                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ODATA-381
             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: OData ATOM Format , OData CSDL, OData Extension for JSON Data 
    Affects Versions: V4.0_CSD01
            Reporter: Patrick Durusau
            Priority: Minor


The current drafts have what are known as "hanging paragraphs." 

As an example, from odata-v4.0-csprd01-part1-protocol:

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8 Header Fields
OData defines semantics around the following request and response headers. Additional headers MAY be specified, but have no unique semantics defined in OData.

8.1 Common Headers
The OData-Version and Content-Type headers are common between OData requests and responses.
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If I say, conform to Section 8, do I mean:

All of section 8 or do I mean only the paragraph following section 8, but not any of the following subsections?

This happens with sub-sections as well, see odata-v4.0-csprd01-part2-url-conventions:

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5.1.1.5 Lambda Operators
OData defines two operators that evaluate a Boolean expression on a collection. Both must be prepended with a navigation path that identifies a collection. 

5.1.1.5.1 any 
The any operator applies a Boolean expression to each member of a collection and evaluates to true if and only if the expression is true for any member of the collection. As a special case the Boolean expression may be empty, in which case the any operator evaluates to true if the collection is not empty.  
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If I say conform to 5.1.1.5 Lambda Operators, as in "prepend[ing]" a navigation path that identifies a collection, do I also mean conform to all the subparagraphs that follow? Or do I mean just that part? 

Formally it is an ambiguous reference to have content following a section division that has sub-divisions. It isn't possible to resolve from the text along, say for a conformance clause, the meaning of the reference. Meaning different readers will assign different meanings to the reference. 

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