Re: RDF-ISSUE-176: CR comment: BNF expression of RDF Concepts [RDF Concepts]

In the interest of time: you should now feel free to send.
Guus




> Op 13 dec. 2013 om 17:05 heeft "Ivan Herman" <ivan@w3.org> het volgende geschreven:
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> Ivan
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>> On 13 Dec 2013, at 14:31 , Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> here's the proposed response for ISSUE-176.
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>> Dear Richard,
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>> Thank you again for you comment on the RDF 1.1 Concepts document, recorded
>> by the RDF WG as ISSUE-177.
>> 
>> You noticed that the document does not include a BNF representation of the
>> concepts which characterize an RDF graph and suggested that adding one would
>> be helpful to developers as it would introduce standard naming conventions.
>> 
>> The working group has decided to not include a BNF representation into RDF
>> 1.1 Concepts for a number of reasons. Most importantly, RDF 1.1 Concepts
>> tries to clearly separate between the abstract syntax (data model) it
>> describes and concrete syntaxes defined in other documents. We believe that
>> the addition of BNF to the document would blur that line and confuse readers
>> (as it has been the case in the past where RDF/XML was often conflated with
>> RDF's data model).
>> RDF Concepts already normatively defines all important concepts and
>> highlights those definitions visually. Redefining them in BNF would require
>> to connect the BNF symbols to the corresponding concepts. Most of these
>> symbols would therefore differ only in the capitalization and whitespace and
>> thus be of limited practical value. On the other hand, naming symbols which
>> have no corresponding concept defined in the current document (e.g.,
>> literals which are not language-tagged strings) is, as past discussions have
>> shown, likely to be very time consuming. Unfortunately, there's only very
>> little time left given that WG is nearing the end of its chartered life.
>> 
>> Please reply to this message and let us know whether this is an adequate
>> response to your comments. 
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>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Markus
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>> 
>> --
>> Markus Lanthaler
>> @markuslanthaler
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