RE: LANG: Proposal to close issue 5.17 - XML syntax

On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 17:30, Smith, Michael K wrote:
> > Er... we have a normative RDF/XML syntax. That's not
> > at issue here.
> 
> So, the normative RDF/XML syntax defines the OWL tags?

Yes... at least, I think so; I'm not sure I understand
the question.

The OWL refernce gives URIs for terms (properties, classes, ...)
and says that you can write OWL KBs/formulas using
RDF/XML syntax, which encodes the terms
as XML tags.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Connolly [mailto:connolly@w3.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 4:33 PM
> To: Smith, Michael K
> Cc: Jim Hendler; webont
> Subject: RE: LANG: Proposal to close issue 5.17 - XML syntax
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 15:24, Smith, Michael K wrote:
> > 
> > The one thing I find odd about this is that our documents are using
> examples
> > that depend on an XML syntax.
> 
> Er... we have a normative RDF/XML syntax. That's not
> at issue here.
> 
> What's at issue here is a non-normative XML presentation
> syntax.
> 
> >  What mechanism are we going to use to ensure
> > document consistency if we leave this for some future time?

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