cannonical ordering in the XML

• From: Matthew Pocock <matthew.pocock@ncl.ac.uk>
• Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:57:39 +0100
• To: "Owl Dev" <public-owl-dev@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <200709131057.39146.matthew.pocock@ncl.ac.uk>

Hi,

The spec for owl 1.1 defines equality over expressions. However, I can't see 
where it defines ordering over expressions. The haskell code I've got does 
provide a total ordering over all bits of the owl 1.1 syntax, meaning that I 
always process/serialize statements in a consistent order. This is 
particularly important in the xml serialization, particularly if we wish to 
be able to do diffs.

Have I missed the bit that talks about cannonical orderings? Is there an 
expected (although not required) order in which we should serialize elements 
to xml?

Thanks,

Matthew

Received on Thursday, 13 September 2007 09:58:23 UTC