the connotation has the advantage, that "verity" implies some "external reality"
against which the document's "validity" is "verified", whereas "validity" on its
own implies a judgement on principle, and thus leads to the confusion with
"invalid XML".
in any event, for this reader, that's an aspect of the proposal which i had to
sort out in order to figure out what it actually meant...
Sean Mc Grath wrote:
> It is probably way to late to do anything about it but the word
> "valid" bugs me in XML. Principally because of what happens when you
> invert it.
>
> A synonym for "valid" is "correct". But there is a big difference
> between "invalid XML" and "incorrect XML" due to the loading of the
> common word "valid".
>