RE: Minor comments on rdf:text

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>From: public-owl-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-owl-wg-request@w3.org]
>On Behalf Of Boris Motik
>Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:01 PM
>To: 'Antoine Zimmermann'; 'Sandro Hawke'
>Cc: 'W3C OWL Working Group'; 'Axel Polleres'
>Subject: RE: Minor comments on rdf:text

>> Couldn't we just use normal brackets for all tuples in all documents?
>> This would also make things more consistent, since sometimes tuples
>are
>> represented with normal brackets, sometimes with angle brackets. BTW,
>it
>> is a rather standard practice to use normal brackets to write tuples
>in
>> mathematics.
>>
>>
>
>I thought that using angle brackets would be better for clarity;
>however, I have
>obviously underestimated the problems of using HTML as a typesetting
>system.
>I've changed all ⟨ and ⟩ into ( and ).

I can see that this has also changed in the Direct Semantics everywhere. I'm
reluctant to follow this in the RDF-Based Semantics, since "(",")" are
already heavily used for all kinds of other things. This would lead to
expressions such as "(I(a),I(b))", or "F2V(d)((F,x))", which look a bit like
Lisp code. Also, RDF Semantics and OWL 1 RDF-Compatible Semantics both use
"<",">", which is another reason for me to not change anything without
pressing reason. 

Looking at the published PDF and the HTML version in Firefox, Opera and
Google Chrome, the angle brackets look pretty well to me, so I don't see any
need for a change. (IE7 is not HTML4 compatible, and the WG has already
decided to simply ignore such broken browser implementations).

Maybe I will change the current "&lang;","&rang;" forms into "&lt;","&gt;",
but for the moment I am deferring any decision on this.

Best,
Michael

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