- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:33:54 -0500
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>With respect to action: > > AP: 2001-06-08#3: Brian McBride: pick up on the syntax issues now the > model details have been clarified. > >from last weeks teleconference, I would like to propose the attached >McBride/Beckett proposal for parsing containers. This proposal was circulated >on RDF Interest in December 2000 > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Dec/0082.html > >and has been received positively. I have a question about this proposal. It says: 3) rdf:li processing This description of rdf:li processing is described in terms of an implementation. Parsers are not required to implement it this way, but however they implement it, the effect should be the same as if it had been implemented as described here. rdf:li, when it is encountered in the propName (6.14) production, is transformed to an ordinal property, i.e. one of rdf:_1, rdf:_2 etc. It is transformed to the successor of the last ordinal property encountered within the current element. If this is the first ordinal property encountered within the current element, then .... My question is, do 'when it is encountered' and 'last ordinal property encountered' refer to the time-sequence in which the encounterings occur, and doesn't that depend on the implementation details of the parser? And if so, what does the requirement in the first paragraph even mean? If 'encountered' has some more technical meaning in this context which makes it clear from the syntax what order the encountering has to happen, then it might be better to state the ordering in those terms (?) Pat Hayes --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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