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6.3 Conditional compliance

Systems that can handle structured Documents (see section 3.4) must be capable of producing VEOs that contain the following:

• vers:id, vers:subordinateDocuments, vers:subordinateDocumentRelationship, vers:parentDocument, and vers:presentThisDocument attributes in the Document element.

The system must accept and handle VEOs that comply to Version 1 of this Specification. This includes the presence of digital signatures and onion VEOs.

The system must accept VEOs that contain elements and attributes in addition to those defined in Version 1 of this Specification. The system must not lose, change, or discard the information held in these elements and attributes and must be capable of subsequently exporting this information. It is not required, however, that the system use or make available information in these additional attributes.

Import-compliance does not imply native support for VEOs. A import compliant system may convert the imported VEOs into its internal data structures.

The system must accept and handle VEOs that comply to Version 1 of this Specification as described in section 6.3.2. This includes onion VEOs.

The system must accept and handle VEOs that comply to Version 2 of this Specification. This includes:

• Modified VEOs
• Structured documents.

Import compliance does not imply native support for VEOs. A import-compliant system may convert the imported VEOs into its internal data structures.

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