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Re: proposed: use abstract syntax notation (asn06)

From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:17:26 -0500
Message-Id: <436392c149088117e80a2bee7e4aba3e@w3.org>
Cc: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, public-rif-wg@w3.org
To: kifer@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer)

On Nov 12, 2006, at 12:40 AM, Michael Kifer wrote:
> I think what you are trying to define is an ontology for rule parts
> (or maybe a UML-like diagram). This is fine and useful, but I don't 
> think
> it is a substitute for a concise BNF. Also, I don't agree that BNF's 
> parts
> are unnamed. They look perfectly named to me (by nonterminals).

Yes, I'm not sure I understand what BNF lacks either.

Two data points:

(1) The recent OWL 1.1 draft uses UML
17 October 2006
http://owl1_1.cs.manchester.ac.uk/owl_specification.html

(2) I am developing a tool to convert the BNF notation
from the XML specification to an RDF representation.

bnf2turtle -- write a turtle version of an EBNF grammar
2006-02-10
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/85


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