- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:45:16 -0400
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, jjc@hpl.hp.com
- Cc: www-webont-wg@w3.org
> >> >I would actually prefer that RDF/XML not be used at all in the >> >documents used to define tests, on the grounds that RDF/XML is too >> >difficult to read. >> >> While I have sympathy I am not sure where to go with this. >> I think the most readable syntax is N-triple with QNames. >> (N-triple being too verbose). >> >> We could choose to present our tests in such a syntax, but that then gives >> us issues about where the syntax is presented, define etc. N3 is, IMO, >> unusable for a spec because there is no well-defined standard stable > > definition. > >I agree entirely that N3 is not suitable. > >However, we could use the abstract syntax. Let me reiterate, a bit more forcibly this time - Chair's ruling: the normative exchange format, agreed to by this group, and therefore to be used in testing is RDF/XML. If someone wants to do something else IN ADDITION, it would be okay with me - but we agreed to the exchange format, and therefore that's what the tests should be written in. -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) Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 240-731-3822 (Cell) http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
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