From: Pat Hayes (phayes@ihmc.us)
Date: 06/24/04
>This is no big deal. E.g.: > ><var>the net income per year</var> could have been ><var name="the net income per year"/> > >But when designing RuleML, we wanted to minimize the use of XML attributes. Can you tell me WHY you wanted to so minimize this use? I ask because there seem to be strongly held opinions about how 'best' to write XML, including using no attributes, using attributes as far as possible, using attributes with URLs to maximize future extendability, using striped syntax, most emphatically not using striped syntax, etc, etc.. None of this strikes me as wholly rational, frankly: it sounds like arguing over what is the proper color to paint a kitchen. But if y'all can give a good objective reason why you decided to adopt this style rule in RuleML, or if you can relate it to a clearly stateable goal or design criterion, I'd very much like to hear about it. Thanks Pat >Since <http://www.ruleml.org/indtd.html> we have uniformly used the PCDATA >content, rather than CDATA attribute values, as names of ind(ividual)s, >var(iable)s, etc. This has also left us the option of embedded XHTML etc. > >-- Harold > > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-joint-committee@wrath.daml.org >[mailto:owner-joint-committee@wrath.daml.org]On Behalf Of Peter F. >Patel-Schneider >Sent: June 23, 2004 2:29 PM >To: Boley, Harold >Cc: mdean@bbn.com; joint-committee@daml.org >Subject: Re: XML syntax for SWRL > > >A question about RuleML. > >Why doesn't ruleml.var take the variable name as an attribute? This seems >to be a very good place to use an attribute. > >peter -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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