I was not expecting XML schema to be regarded as a SWEL, at least not at the current state of play. #g -- At 02:44 PM 10/25/02 +0200, Jeremy Carroll wrote: > > At 09:15 AM 10/25/02 +0200, Jeremy Carroll wrote: > > >A quick reply to one of pat's questions and then a list of > > review comments. > > > > > > > ?? Can you say why XML Schema is nonmonotonic?? > > > > > >default attributes in the syntax > > > > Is this at all meaningful? Absent some notion of entailment or > > inference, > > which I don't see in XML schema, I'm not sure what it means to be > > monotonic. > >Perhaps not, but in that sense the lBase doc has then also excluded XML >Schema from being a semantic web language, since (unless you buy some of >pfps's contortions in Yin/Yang), it cannot be expressed as a logical >language in the way that lBase requires. > >I think being less ambitious and more specific in scope is desirable. > >Jeremy ------------------- Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org>Received on Tuesday, 29 October 2002 09:56:02 EST
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