- From: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:49:27 -0400
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org>, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, Chris Welty <cawelty@gmail.com>, "Public-Rif-Wg (E-mail)" <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
> On 22 Apr 2008, at 16:08, Michael Kifer wrote: > > > >> 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. I love disjunctions. I see that you did not understand what I said, so I will explain it formally. You: a \/ b. Me: ~b. > 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. Are you talking to me? > Finally, I don't think writing a semantics using XML (e.g., if one > uses RELAX NG's compact syntax) is so bad. Let me repeat: come back when you are done. > 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. You are utterly confused. I was bitching? --michael > Cheers, > Bijan. > >
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