- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 22:41:42 -0400
- To: "Smith, Michael K" <michael.smith@eds.com>, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, www-webont-wg@w3.org
At 10:38 AM -0500 5/17/02, Smith, Michael K wrote: >I went over some of this in my response to Jeremy a while back > >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002May/0085.html > >The fact that the F2F decided triples would be the exchange syntax does not >require that the definition of OWL syntax be given in triples. It would seem >to permit a translation process, say from an XML-based OWL syntax. And that >syntax could be more restrictive. If OWL must accommodate all triples, then >it must give an interpretation to all RDF, which is something Peter is >trying to avoid. > >As far as I am concerned, "triples" are only marginally syntax. One point >of syntax is to help free the semantics from complicated statements about >when a term is meaningless. > >In propositional calculus, the 'meaning' of "A and and and or B" doesn't >come up. And it would not be a feature if it could. > >- Mike Mike- The group resolved that the RDF/XML document would be the exchange syntax, not the triples. -JH -- Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) AV Williams Building, Univ of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
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