- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:17:26 -0500
- To: kifer@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer)
- Cc: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, public-rif-wg@w3.org
On Nov 12, 2006, at 12:40 AM, Michael Kifer wrote: > I think what you are trying to define is an ontology for rule parts > (or maybe a UML-like diagram). This is fine and useful, but I don't > think > it is a substitute for a concise BNF. Also, I don't agree that BNF's > parts > are unnamed. They look perfectly named to me (by nonterminals). Yes, I'm not sure I understand what BNF lacks either. Two data points: (1) The recent OWL 1.1 draft uses UML 17 October 2006 http://owl1_1.cs.manchester.ac.uk/owl_specification.html (2) I am developing a tool to convert the BNF notation from the XML specification to an RDF representation. bnf2turtle -- write a turtle version of an EBNF grammar 2006-02-10 http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/85 -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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