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RE: [UCR] Design constraints: early example goal/csf hierarchy --> PR / PRR

From: Gerd Wagner <wagnerg@tu-cottbus.de>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:12:10 +0200
To: "'Bijan Parsia'" <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>, "'Vincent, Paul D'" <PaulVincent@fairisaac.com>
Cc: "'RIF WG'" <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <000501c6645a$85d60db0$55032b8d@TMGWAGNER>

> So it's worth considering affordances toward homoginization 
> (instead of being completely bound by quirk support).
 
I think this is a very important point, in particular
for production rule systems, which, like HTML, because
of a lack of precise semantics, have developed all kinds
of proprietary quirks. 

Notice that in the case of HTML, the subsequent clean-up 
through the XHTML standard has led the browser vendors to 
support two processing modes: their old quirks mode and
additionally a standards mode that is XHTML compliant
(they recognize the required mode by checking if the
HTML document conatains a corresponding document type
declaration or not).

I think a similar development is desirable for production 
rule systems.

-Gerd
Received on Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:11:58 GMT

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