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Target is not necessarily a specific segment, but we say it is #2884

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In the section titled "Subset of the Web Annotation Data Model" we say:

The Target of an EPUB Annotation is the content being annotated, which is a specific segment in a document within the EPUB package defined by its relative Source URL and a Selector.

However, we do not require the target to be a specific segment in a document, unless we are including the entire document with no range specified as a "segment in" that document. I am actually not sure why we need to define target here at all? There are a lot of nuances (for instance, I am not sure from this definition if selector is required), and this is just a list of changes from web annotations, which is really only interesting to people that know what is in web annotations, and hence are likely aware of how target is used.

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I propose deleting the second sentence of this bullet point.

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