Re: Updated Conformance and Test Cases

From: "Alan Ruttenberg" <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Updated Conformance and Test Cases
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:47:29 -0500

> 
> Some comments on conformance:
> 
> I wonder whether there should be a more specific pointer to the
> restrictions mentioned in the syntactic conformance, i.e. rather than
> just pointing to the syntax document, pointing to
> http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-syntax/#Global_Restrictions_on_Axioms

You mean copying normative text?  I think that this is bad idea. 

> A nit on the must accept/generate RDF/XML. Because of the syntactic
> restrictions in RDF/XML that prevent serialization of all RDF, for
> some OWL 2 Full document one MUST do something that isn't possible. I
> suggest a footnote saying something about this. An alternative would
> be to specify that NTRIPLES must be acceptable as well.

I would just amend the text to "MUST, if possible".

[...]

> "for example, very large integers". Do we not need a summary of what
> minimal conformance for literals are?

Already in Syntax.  Perhaps a pointer is called for.

[...]

> -Alan

> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Ian Horrocks
> <ian.horrocks@comlab.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > I updated Conformance and Test Cases [1] both to reflect the resolution of
> > issue 150 [2] and to address outstanding review comments that were captured
> > in editors notes. The diff can be found at [3]. Please let me know if you
> > are satisfied with the current state of the document (modulo test cases).
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > [1] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Conformance_and_Test_Cases
> > [2] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/tracker/issues/150
> > [3]
> > http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?title=Conformance_and_Test_Cases&diff=14372&oldid=14291

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