diff --git a/src/oas.md b/src/oas.md index f7b626d28c..f98be1d7c4 100644 --- a/src/oas.md +++ b/src/oas.md @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Implementations MAY choose to support referencing by other URIs such as the retr #### OpenAPI Description Structure An **OpenAPI Description** (**OAD**) formally describes the surface of an API and its semantics. -An OAD MAY be made up of a single document, or be distributed across multiple documents that are connected by various fields using [URI references](#relative-references-in-api-description-uris) and [implicit connections](#resolving implicit connections). +An OAD MAY be made up of a single document, or be distributed across multiple documents that are connected by various fields using [URI references](#relative-references-in-api-description-uris) and [implicit connections](#resolving-implicit-connections). In order for parsing behavior to be well-defined, all documents in an OAD MUST have either an OpenAPI Object or a Schema Object at the root, and MUST be parsed as complete documents, as described in the next section.