Re: [TED] Slides of F2F4 Breakout on Abstract Syntax and Semantics: Slots & Constraints

Christian de Sainte Marie wrote:
> 
> Dave Reynolds wrote:
> 
>>
>> Boley, Harold wrote:
>>
>>> Please find attached the slides (both pdf and ppt versions) of our
>>> F2F4 Breakout on Abstract Syntax and Semantics: Slots & Constraints,
>>> updated on the basis of the plenary debrief yesterday.
>>>
>>> -- Harold
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Just a side comment, not related to the main content of the proposal, 
>> but it's not clear to me why you argue that keyed-slots are 
>> particularly motivated by RDF. [...]  However, we have enough problems 
>> helping people
>> understand that RDF is not an object model that I'd like to avoid 
>> mixed messages on that, it might be simplest to drop that motivation 
>> from any external documents.
> 
> Hmmm... Charter says [1]:
> "In order to allow interoperability with RDF and object-oriented 
> systems, the syntax must support named arguments (also called "role" or 
> "slot" names), allowing n-ary facts, rules, and queries to be provided 
> through property/value interfaces."
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/charter#xml-syntax

I'm aware of that and I wasn't happy with that either :-)

Dave

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