- From: Dave Reynolds <der@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:58:56 +0100
- To: Christian de Sainte Marie <csma@ilog.fr>
- CC: RIF WG <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
Christian de Sainte Marie wrote: > > All, > > I created a wiki page to discuss UC1 [1] in which I clarify how I use > terms like 'consumer', 'producer' etc (or so I hope). This should close > action 9 (http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/track/actions/9). In there you have the comment: "Nothing in the use case motivates the "XML data" (whatever it means) nor "XML types" requirements: their respective applications interchange data as XML documents, but that tells us nothing about how they process the data they interchange." Is that really true? Surely the exchange only works if the expressions within the exchanged rules which are expressions over data values are linked to the XML format in which the data is being exchanged? Sure the run time processing might be over some arbitrary datastructure and the translator needs to translate the data-access parts of the rules to match that datastructure. However, as far as the interchange process is concerned the rules are specified in terms of some agreed exchange data model which seem to be XML in your case (though of course it could be RDF :-)). Dave
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