- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:41:52 +0000
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- CC: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, public-owl-wg@w3.org
Bijan Parsia wrote: > > On 15 Nov 2007, at 12:49, Jeremy Carroll wrote: > [snip] >> With Peter's e-mail, I am confident that we can have: >> >> - in-line XSD datatypes with our own syntax >> - in-line XSD datatypes using their syntax (but probably not in >> RDF/XML; the xml literals in RDF/XML are defined via exclusive XML >> Canonicalization, that is not compatabilte with shipping XML Schema >> fragments) >> - external references to XSD datatypes with an explicit id attribute >> [Hence allowing an ontology to be shipped in two files, one >> containing all the datatypes] >> >> The only missing desiderata was external references to arbitrary XSD >> datatypes, which does depend on XML Schema's SCD doc. >> I personally think we should be prepared to cut our losses at that point. > > I'm happy to cut it there. This would be a great improvement on the > status quo. > > Cheers, > Bijan. > We can ask them the status of SCD and remind them that our need for this functionality has not gone away. Jeremy
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