Re: CURIE proposal ...

Bijan Parsia wrote:
> On 22 Apr 2008, at 02:36, Sandro Hawke wrote:
>> I'm such a flip-flopper; maybe I should run for President.
>>
>> While I liked Axel's proposal, I think I also get Michael's point, that
>> (to paraphrase) the Presentation Syntax is not a real rule language.  If
>> we want a real (usable) rule lanuage, we should carefully design one,
>> not just add random patches to the PS.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> It's a fantasy, in my experience, to think that something called a 
> "Presentation Syntax" is *not* going to get used as a concrete syntax. 
> It will just be an underspecified one. (See the old OWL abstract syntax 
> for one example.)

even there, it was useful to write down examples.

> What's the objection to using XML directly? 

see my last mail.

Axel

> For spec purposes, relax-ng 
> grammars are reasonably compact. For examples, well, I'd personally 
> rather have the actual syntax I'm supposed to be exchanging.



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Dr. Axel Polleres, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI)
email: axel.polleres@deri.org  url: http://www.polleres.net/

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