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appInfo spec is somewhat unintuitive; interpretation of pointing elements and of the lack thereof #1516

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@bansp

I was about to mention the appInfo element to a fellow Freedict developer, in the hope that he would be able to look at the spec and move from there, when the cute fragment <ptr target="#P1"/> caught my eye.

OK, this is explained in the text of the section, but in the brief spec description the pointer is completely unintuitive. I thought at first that it targeted a description of the tool elsewhere in the header.

I would like to suggest a more thorough description in the spec, and perhaps also including <ref> as an alternative to <ptr>, especially if more than one part is affected and they may be meaningfully labelled.

Another thing I wondered about is the interpretation of <application> in the absence of any pointing element inside. I understand that in such cases, it applies to the entire document (pre- or post-inclusion?), but it may be worth mentioning in the description as well.

Definitely a low-priority issue but worth raising, I thought. HTH

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