Re: [PRD] new version on Wiki

Premature send. I wanted to suggest a fix for the issues in my last 
email.. Instead of the "all" attribute on Retract, add a new action 
RetractSlotValues(TERM TERM), where the first TERM is the object and the 
second TERM is the slot.

Christian De Sainte Marie wrote:
>
> All, (and esp. Gary, Adrian, Paul, Changhai and Mark)
>
> I updated the PRD draft with the changes wrt Modify and Retract:
> - I called the primitive PRD actions: simple actions, and I defined 
> them as being either atomic actions (simple actions that represent 
> atomic transactions) or compound actions (simple actions that 
> represent predefined, fixed sequences of atomic actions);
> - to avoid having to take the different kinds of simple actions into 
> account in the semantics of rules and rule sets, I said that the 
> semantics is specified, without loss of generality, for the after they 
> have been normalized by replacing all the compound actions by the 
> equivalent sequence of atomic actions (in addition to the 
> normalization by splitting disjunctive conditions into separate 
> subrules). As a consequence, I renamed the section Rules with 
> disjunctive conditions into: Rules normalization [1].
> - I introduced a new variant of the syntax of Retract: Retract(<frame> 
> "all"), for the atomic action that retracts all the frames with the 
> same object and the same attribute as <frame>;
> - I modified the XML syntax of Retract accordingly, by adding an 
> optional attribute "allValues", with type xs:boolean and default value 
> = "true".
>
> I updated the whole text accordingly, changing atomic action for 
> simple action where relevant, etc. I also updated the XSD.
>
> See the diff between the current version and the CR version [2].
>
> As I wrote yesterday, I did not do the editorial changes required to 
> move the new definition of PR system state in the right place to avoid 
> forward references, so that the diff shows only the essential changes.
>
> Please, let me know asap if you agree with the changes: As soon as I 
> have enough consensus (that's probably Gary, Adrian, Changhai and Paul 
> :-) I will do the additional editorial changes and freeze the doc.
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/PRD#Rules_normalization
> [2] 
> http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/index.php?title=PRD&diff=12095&oldid=11437 
> <http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/index.php?title=PRD&diff=12095&oldid=11437> 
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christian
>
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