Re: CURIE proposal ...

On 22 Apr 2008, at 16:08, Michael Kifer wrote:
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>> My point is that a halfway stop is no good. Either have a fully
>> specced Presentation Syntax or use the XML directly.
>
> Yeah! Write semantics using XML and then come back.
[snip]

Dude, it's a disjunction. I know you don't like disjunctions, but  
that's no reason to ignore them.

My point is that if you have a presentation syntax, people *will* use  
it and treat it as a concrete syntax no matter what warnings you put  
up. Surely your experience with recent comments confirms this.

Finally, I don't think writing a semantics using XML (e.g., if one  
uses RELAX NG's compact syntax) is so bad. I understand you prefer  
not to, which is fine. But then don't bitch when people want the  
presentation to be a (readable) concrete syntax.

Cheers,
Bijan.

Received on Tuesday, 22 April 2008 15:31:54 UTC