Re: Dependency on XSD 1.1 -- possible compromise

Looks like the best we can do.

Best,

Rinke

On 16 sep 2009, at 01:05, Ian Horrocks wrote:

> Sorry for the long email, but this is an important matter, and I  
> wanted to provide complete information. Please read carefully and  
> let me know if you have any comments.
>
> And thanks to everyone whose hard work has made progress possible.
>
> Regards,
> Ian
>
>
> After a careful examination of the dependencies and checking the  
> stability of the relevant parts of the XSD 1.1 spec it has been  
> suggested that we could go forward to PR under the following  
> conditions:
>
> 1) Normative references to XML Schema Datatypes be changed to  
> normatively refer to XSD 1.0 as updated by XSD 1.1 when it becomes a  
> recommendation, with a pointer to the existing XSD 1.1 CR as a  
> nonnormative indication of the expected content of said update. The  
> proposed text for the reference is:
>
> [XML Schema Datatypes]
>   W3C XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition, Paul V. Biron and
>    Ashok Malhotra, eds. W3C Recommendation 28 October 2004,
>    http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/. It is expected that in a future
>    revision this reference will be replaced with a normative reference
>    to a W3C Recommendation of XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1
>    Part 2: Datatypes. The (non-normative) version of this document
>    available at publication time is the 30 April 2009 Candidate
>    Recommendation.
>
>
> 2) In Conformance we say that the additional features offered by XSD  
> 1.1 are considered optional at this time, but that we expect XSD 1.1  
> to become a Recommendation and that references to it will then be  
> considered normative. The proposed text is as follows:
>
>    As of the publication of this document, version 1.1 is not yet a  
> W3C
>    Recommendation.  Both the OWL Working Group and the XML Schema  
> Working
>    Group are confident that there will be only minor changes before it
>    becomes a W3C Recommendation. In order to take advantage of the
>    anticipated corrections and new features sooner, while also  
> providing
>    stability in case the specification does not advance as expected,
>    conformance to OWL 2 as it relates to XML Schema Datatypes is  
> defined
>    as follows:
>
>     - If XSD 1.1 becomes a W3C Recommendation, all references in OWL  
> 2 to
>        XML Schema Datatype features will be normative references to  
> the
> 	   1.1 Recommendation.
>
>    - Until that time, references in OWL 2 to XML Schema Datatype
>       features operate as follows:
>
>    a) If XSD 1.0 defines the features, then the reference is normative
>    to the 1.0 definition.  b) Otherwise, the feature is optional in  
> OWL
>    2 and the reference is informative only.
>
>    This "change in normative reference" is effective as of the
>    publication of XSD 1.1 as a W3C Recommendation.  However, W3C  
> expects
>    to publish a new edition of OWL 2 once XSD 1.1 becomes a
>    Recommendation to update the reference explicitly.
>
>
> 3) The OWL WG would remain open, but "dormant", pending the  
> transition of XSD 1.1 to Recommendation. At this point we would  
> briefly emerge from our dormant state in order to change the  
> documents to normatively reference XSD 1.1 and to remove the above  
> text from Conformance.
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 16 September 2009 12:13:27 UTC