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[Couchdb Wiki] Update of "ReservedWords" by JanLehnardt

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The following page has been changed by JanLehnardt:
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/ReservedWords

The comment on the change is:
make clear, which are actually reserved and which are proposals

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  This document details item names that have a special system meaning. It also details recommended item names which are not enforced by the system, but may help interoperability of databases if consistent names are used.
+ 
+ == Reserved Item Names ==
+ System reserved items start with underscore, the other items listed are conventions.
+ === _id ===
+ this is the unique ID of the document
+ === _rev ===
+ This is the revision reference of the document
+ 
+ 
+ = Proposals =
- Some of these recommended names have never been used for anything and are proposals for future use.
+ These recommended names have never been used for anything and are proposals for future use.
  == Reserved Document IDs ==
  === favicon ===
  This contains an image representing the database. The icon is an attachment to this document, it can be in SVG or PNG format. A client application may scan all databases on a CouchDB server retrieving their icons.
  === Security ===
  The security document may contain a datastructure that defines the rights users have to all or parts of the database. This may be enforced by a client library or perhaps by the database.
- == Reserved Item Names ==
- System reserved items start with underscore, the other items listed are conventions.
- === _ID ===
- this is the unique ID of the document
- === _rev ===
- This is the revision reference of the document
  === form ===
  This contains a single text string to identify the user interface to be used to display the document. The text string could be the ID of another couchdb document which contains the definition of the form.
  === subject ===