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note markus as former editor to fix echidna
wip-abramson Dec 11, 2025
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/gh-pages' into gh-pages
wip-abramson Dec 11, 2025
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clarify didDocument representation for accept media type
wip-abramson Dec 12, 2025
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address #237, removing conflicting normative statement about accept
wip-abramson Dec 12, 2025
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Expand Up @@ -579,7 +579,9 @@ <h3>DID Resolution Options</h3>
string">ASCII string</a>. The <a>DID resolver</a> implementation SHOULD use this
value to determine the <a>representation</a> of the returned
<code>didDocument</code> if such a <a>representation</a> is supported and
available. This property is OPTIONAL.
available. Any <a>representation</a> MUST be able to be tranlated into
the representation defined by the <code>application/did</code> mediaType.
This property is OPTIONAL.
</dd>
</dl>

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</li>
<li>Otherwise, the result of the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/#method-operations">Read</a> operation
is called the <var>output <a>DID document</a></var>. This result MUST be represented in a
<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/#representations">conformant representation</a> that
corresponds to the <b>accept</b> <var>input <a href="#did-resolution-options">DID resolution option</a></var>.</li>
<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/#representations">conformant representation</a>.</li>
</ol>
<li>If the <var>input <a href="#did-resolution-options">DID resolution options</a></var> contain the <code>expandRelativeUrls</code> option with a value of <code>true</code>:
<ol class="algorithm">
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