- From: Hassan Aït-Kaci <hak@ilog.com>
- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:21:26 -0700
- To: Gary Hallmark <gary.hallmark@oracle.com>
- CC: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, public-rif-wg@w3.org
Gary Hallmark wrote: > the requirement is to have both a linear presentation syntax and an XML > schema-specified syntax, both with a common abstract syntax and semantics. > > one approach is to just write down the 2 syntaxes, one in BNF and the > other in XML schema, and verify by hand that they are the same at an > abstract level. > > a second approach is to write down the abstract syntax in some formal > notation and use software to generate the presentation syntax and the > XML schema. > > a third approach is to write down the presentation syntax in some formal > notation and use software to generate the XML schema. > BNF might work, but you have to show how to generate a "usable" XML > schema from a BNF description. I agree with this clear succint and simple statement in 4 points. I have been working on developing a tool for precisely the last point (XML generated from BNF with schema inferred). Whatever the eventual compromise may be, if one is ever reached, it will be quite simple for me to adapt. So "I am juss sittin' out the storm...". ;-) -hak -- Hassan Aït-Kaci * ILOG, Inc. - Product Division R&D http://koala.ilog.fr/wiki/bin/view/Main/HassanAitKaci
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