Fwd: draft response for LC comment 63 JO1

Meant to reply all.
-Alan
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:00:29 -0400
Subject: Re: draft response for LC comment 63 JO1
To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>

Because the issue of the XML syntax, has a contentious one, and
because the addition says more clearly what the case is. Is there
something wrong with saying so?

-Alan

On Mar 16, 2009, at 4:36 PM, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider"
<pfps@research.bell-labs.com
 > wrote:

> OWL tools are in some sense free to use whatever XML they want
> internally, and the WG doesn't really have anything to say about this,
> but I don't see why the reply should have the "for exchange of"
> qualification.
>
> peter
>
>
>
> From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: draft response for LC comment 63 JO1
> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:25:17 -0400
>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> A minor point.
>>
>> In:
>> The reason for a normative and recommendation track status for the
>> OWL 2
>> XML syntax is to say that OWL 2 tools that use an XML syntax for
>> OWL 2
>> *should* use the XML syntax provided in the OWL 2 recommendation.
>>
>> s/that use an XML syntax/that use an XML syntax for exchange of/
>> Presumably this should be fixed in the underlying document unless
>> obvious from the immediate context.
>>
>> -Alan
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
>> <pfps@research.bell-labs.com> wrote:
>>> [Draft Response for LC Comment 63:] JO1
>>>
>>> Dear Jacco,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your message
>>>  <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/2009Feb/0013.html
>>> >
>>> on the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language last call drafts.
>>>
>>> The Working Group acknowledges that the recent last call document
>>> set
>>> confused some readers, particularly with respect to the overall
>>> OWL 2
>>> environment and the various syntaxes for OWL 2.  At its last
>>> face-to-face meeting the Working Group has, therefore, added a new
>>> document to the OWL 2 suite, entitled "Document Overview". The
>>> document
>>> has not yet been published, but an editor's draft is publicly
>>> available
>>> at:
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Document_Overview
>>>
>>> The Document Overview document describes the status of the various
>>> syntaxes for OWL 2 and clearly states that RDF/XML is the primary
>>> syntax
>>> for the exchange of OWL 2 ontologies.  This status is reiterated
>>> in the
>>> Conformance document.  The Document Overview document states that
>>> the
>>> XML syntax need not be supported by OWL 2 tools.
>>>
>>> There are other parts of the OWL 2 recommendation that are
>>> optional as
>>> well.  There can be OWL 2 tools that only implement OWL 2 RL, for
>>> example.
>>>
>>> The reason for a normative and recommendation track status for the
>>> OWL 2
>>> XML syntax is to say that OWL 2 tools that use an XML syntax for
>>> OWL 2
>>> *should* use the XML syntax provided in the OWL 2 recommendation.
>>> Making the XML syntax a working group note would not provide this
>>> sort
>>> of guidance.
>>>
>>> The Working Group plans on making the examples in the OWL 2
>>> Structural
>>> Specification and Functional Syntax document available in other
>>> syntaxes, even though that document only defines one syntax.  The
>>> Working group does not intend to make changes to the XML
>>> Serialization
>>> document in response to your message.
>>>
>>> We hope that the new document and other upcoming changes address
>>> your
>>> concerns.
>>>
>>> Please acknowledge receipt of this email to
>>> <mailto:public-owl-comments@w3.org> (replying to this email should
>>> suffice). In your acknowledgment please let us know whether or not
>>> you
>>> are satisfied with the working group's response to your comment.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Peter F. Patel-Schneider
>>> on behalf of the W3C OWL Working Group
>>>
>>>
>>

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