- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:16:17 +0000
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: Christian de Sainte Marie <csma@ilog.fr>, "Boley, Harold" <Harold.Boley@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>, public-rif-wg@w3.org
On Jan 30, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Sandro Hawke wrote: [snip] > I lean towards using stripe-skipping (as is there now, more or > less), to > reduce the risk of people looking at the first example XML and > deciding > RIF stinks because of the super-ugly XML. :-) But maybe the > people who > matter wont decide so lightly. I don't consider that consideration a light one. E.g.,: <http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/10/23/iswc.html> """Yes, there really is an element named "_r" which has an attributed named "n". Brutal. So, obviously, the RuleML guys don't intend anyone to deal with RuleML instances by hand. The problem, of course, as XML veterans can attest, is that this is always wrong: no matter how sincere the intent that some markup language is meant to be consumed and produced only by machines, it is always the case that some human eventually ends up having to deal with that markup."""" I heard that a lot. I said it myself :) If you want RIF to be composed with other XML formats (e.g., WSDL), the it's really a good idea to make it non-horrendous. Fully explicit derivation trees are generally a loser. Obviously, this is something to trade off other considerations. But I don't think it's a light one. Cheers, Bijan.
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