Re: Updated Conformance and Test Cases

From: "Alan Ruttenberg" <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Updated Conformance and Test Cases
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 13:03:30 -0500

> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
> <pfps@research.bell-labs.com> wrote:
> > From: "Alan Ruttenberg" <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: Updated Conformance and Test Cases
> > Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:47:29 -0500
> >
> >>
> >> Some comments on conformance:
> >>
> >> I wonder whether there should be a more specific pointer to the
> >> restrictions mentioned in the syntactic conformance, i.e. rather than
> >> just pointing to the syntax document, pointing to
> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-syntax/#Global_Restrictions_on_Axioms
> >
> > You mean copying normative text?  I think that this is bad idea.
> 
> No, I meant mentioning the section specifically in the citation rather
> than the whole syntax document.

Oops, my mistake.  Pointing to the section would be a good idea.

> >> A nit on the must accept/generate RDF/XML. Because of the syntactic
> >> restrictions in RDF/XML that prevent serialization of all RDF, for
> >> some OWL 2 Full document one MUST do something that isn't possible. I
> >> suggest a footnote saying something about this. An alternative would
> >> be to specify that NTRIPLES must be acceptable as well.
> >
> > I would just amend the text to "MUST, if possible".
> 
> I be happy with that but would prefer to couple it with something
> indicating that the other syntaxes SHOULD not be used in such a way as
> to not have it be possible for the RDF/XML to serialize their
> contents.

Why not?

> > [...]
> >
> >> "for example, very large integers". Do we not need a summary of what
> >> minimal conformance for literals are?
> >
> > Already in Syntax.  Perhaps a pointer is called for.
> 
> At least. They are probably short enough, however, that it would be
> useful to have them in this document.

See my comment on copying normative text above.

> >> -Alan

peter

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