Re: The specification has been updated

Boris,

one comment on the 'at risk feature' for XMLLiteral. Forgive me if I
comment on something for which I was not present at the discussion, I
just went through the IRC minutes. But the comment says:

'This datatype might be removed from OWL 2 if the users and implementors
of OWL 2 do not express support to the datatype.'

the way I read this is that the intention is to remove this datatype
unless somebody explicitly comes up and asks for it. This is in quite a
contrast with, say, the comment for rationals which simply says that if
there are major implementation issues then (and only then) would we
remove this datatype. Is this really the result of the discussion?

I would propose to change this comment to essentially the same as for
rationals, ie, that if there are major implementation issues with
XMLLiteral, we would remove it (and, actually, the remark may also make
it clear that, as far as I understand, OWL 2 Full _will_ have this
datatype anyways, per remark of Michael, so we are talking about
removing it from OWL DL only...)

Ivan

Boris Motik wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've just updated the five documents that I'm an editor of with the latest resolutions. Again, there were quite a few changes,
> mainly because I fixed some clarity issues that Ian was complaining about, so I'm not providing diffs.
> 
> I've added a template for "at risk" features. We currently have four such features in the Syntax document, all in Section 4
> (datatypes). Since the definition of datatypes in the Profiles document depends on the Syntax document, I added one "at risk" block
> for all four features. If would be good if someone would check whether my wording is correct (I imagine that it can be improved).
> 
> I've also updated the references with the changes in editorship as decided recently.
> 
> All of my five documents validated correctly, apart from the RDF Mapping document, where there is some spurious error in the
> generation of the table of contents. I'm afraid we'll need to fix this one manually before publication.
> 
> None of the five documents contains broken links.
> 
> Please let me know should you have any comments about the documents.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>  Boris
> 
> 

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