- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 07:39:57 +0100
- To: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- CC: www-rdf-comments@w3.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Jonathan, Thank you for this suggestion. I have added a reference to your message attached to the issue in the issue tracking document: http://jigedit.w3.org/bmcbride/WWW/2000/03/rdf-tracking/Overview.html#rdfms-formal-grammar to ensure that the RDFCore WG is aware of your suggestion when it considers this issue. Brian Jonathan Borden wrote: > > I hope the RDFCore WG will consider the forest grammar/tree regular > expression as a specification of the formal RDF XML syntax. The unordered > nature of RDF is best described as a forest grammar and this presents > difficulties for traditional XML schema languages such as DTDs. > > I have specified this as a RELAXNG schema for RDF > http://www.openhealth.org/RDF/RDF1.rng in terms of solidifying the RDF XML > syntax under the issue: > http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdfms-formal-grammar > > An advantage of specifying the grammar in this language is that it has a > good formal semantics which is based on the formal semantics of XDuce. > http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~hahosoya/xduce/ . Note that the XML Schema > formalism in http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-formal appears to be based on > XDuce as well which is referenced. > > Because I realize the politics around RELAXNG, I have converted this to the > language used by XDuce and by the XML Schema Formalism: > http://www.openhealth.org/RDF/RDFSyntaxFormal. > > It is really quite simple. > > Jonathan Borden > The Open Healthcare Group > http://www.openhealth.org
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