- From: Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:49:16 +0100
- To: "Sandro Hawke" <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: "RIF \(E-mail\)" <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
On 30 Sep 2009, at 01:44, Sandro Hawke wrote: > > > > Profile names: We have profile names? I don't remember them. > Where > > > are > > > they in the syntax? > > > > > > > You are right, profiles are ANGLEBRACKIRIs, confused that with > Dialect > > names, cf. > > > > Dialect ::= 'Dialect' '(' Name ')' > > Ah, I missed that. As I've argued many times, included a dialect name > in the syntax is big mistake. I thought people understood that by > now, > but I guess not. I think it's a mistake for FLD to support dialect > designers macking this mistake, but I guess it's my fault for not > noticing this before Last Call. Oh well. > > As for the rest of this thread... I don't care about "the" PS. It's > just there as a shorthand for specifying the semantics. I'll consider > it a huge failure of the community if people ever actually use it > (instead of better PS's that come along). > fair enough, a solid PS now can serve as a basis of defining that better PS in terms of it (I wouldn't want to define a better PS in terms of the XML syntax at least.) I agree that the current PS suffered too many compromises along the way to be readable. Axel -- Dr. Axel Polleres Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway email: axel.polleres@deri.org url: http://www.polleres.net/
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