- From: Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:03:37 +0100
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- CC: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>, Chris Welty <cawelty@gmail.com>, "Public-Rif-Wg (E-mail)" <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
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. -- Dr. Axel Polleres, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) email: axel.polleres@deri.org url: http://www.polleres.net/ rdfs:Resource owl:differentFrom xsd:anyURI .
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