- From: Danny Ayers <danny666@virgilio.it>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:51:12 +0100
- To: "Brian McBride" <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>
Hi Brian,
I'm a little confused -
> I suspect that you are writing a document from the point of view that
> you are specifying the behaviour of software. The RDF specs are written
> more from the point of view that they define the syntax and meaning of
> RDF documents. This would explain why you might not find some of the
> things you expect.
I realise that 'RDF Test Cases' [1] deals with the edge cases ("...a set of
machine-processable test cases corresponding to technical issues addressed
by the Working Group..."), but isn't there an implied notion of compliance:
<something> passes these tests? Isn't this specifying the behaviour of
software? Putting it another way, say the rest of the grammar was framed in
similar tests, would would this supply a conformance model, and if so, for
what?
Cheers,
Danny.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-testcases/
Received on Sunday, 30 November 2003 06:04:12 UTC