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Re: GRDDL and OWL/XML

From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 09:21:59 -0500
To: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>
Cc: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>, public-grddl-comments@w3.org, Chimezie Ogbuji <ogbujic@ccf.org>, public-grddl-wg@w3.org
Message-Id: <1210688519.4651.608.camel@pav.lan>

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 19:54 +0100, Harry Halpin wrote:
[...]
> Your argument is that the CR report specifies the function abstractly. 
> I'm pretty sure the GRDDL WG was not thinking of non-executable 
> functions when developing GRDDL. I would like to here other opinions of 
> whether or not a GRDDL transformation has to be "executable."

A prose specification of a transformation function is just as
much a representation of a transformation function as an XSLT document.

But...

> My personal opinion is that I am not sure what the utility of it is if 
> it can't be executable,

exactly, as prose isn't a "widely-supported format"...


"Developers of transformations should make available representations in
widely-supported formats. XSLT version 1[XSLT1] is the format most
widely supported by GRDDL-aware agents as of this writing ... ."
 -- http://www.w3.org/TR/grddl

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