[SCL] Comments on Pat's SCL document

[Murray Altheim]

John F. Sowa wrote:
[...]
>   6. I doubt that we should include URIs in the SCL core.
>      Instead, I suggest that we have a recommended ontology
>      with a dyadic relation URI, which would state that the
>      SCL term in the first argument denotes the same entity
>      specified by the URI label in the second argument.

While I have no opinion on including the *use* of URIs in SCL core,
I am still hoping that the web version of the document be sure to
include link targets for each and every important language component,
so that subsequent specifications based on SCL can unambiguously
link to their associated parts. Otherwise it will be much more
difficult to refer to sections and/or develop URIs/PSIs based on
those components. This will be useful to the RDF and Topic Map
crowd, as well as anyone developing SCL extensions, software, etc.

This is how I "stole" the semantics of XML Schema Datatypes (since
the document authors were kind enough to provide a set of URIs for
the purpose), and how I hope to also "steal" the SCL semantics.

Murray

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