- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:50:55 -0800
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Dec 30, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Elliotte Harold wrote: >> >> I definitely believe that defining syntax, semantics, and behavior in >> one spec is a very bad idea. > > The only example I can think of where the syntax, semantics, and > behaviour > were defined in _different_ specs was the OWL specs, and my > understanding > is that that working group concluded it was a mistake. Two points. First, I don't think that the WG did conclude that this was a mistake; if anything, the contrary. Second, the OWL specs (quite deliberately) do not specify behavior at all. Pat Hayes
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