[SCL] two comments

[pat hayes]

>Pat,
>
>I can't follow the details of this entirely, but the conversation
>sounds very much like one that went on in the XML Topic Maps
>discussions. Without boring you all with the details, a Topic Map
>is not a linear sequence; it's very much a complex, unordered graph.

Good point, and one that I should have thought of myself :-)

>We were still able to use EBNF to specify the XML syntax,

Do you have an entry URl for where I might get at that?

>and I'm
>sure that the graph theoretic model behind that (which is called
>the Reference Model, a current ISO project) is also capable of
>being expressed in EBNF. So I'm really not certain where you'd
>have to rely on "tricks" to get EBNF to do what you want with the
>SCL abstract syntax, or XCL/CLML for that matter.
>
>Murray
>
>PS. I tend to use "XCL" rather than CLML because there is some question
>about whether an XML serialization of CL could be considered a "markup
>language" or not, i.e., some people also question whether XTM is a
>markup language or a serialization syntax. Doesn't really matter I
>suppose, but I tend to avoid *ML for that reason. No biggie though.

Right, I tend to get itchy when I recall what "ML' means. MOstly I 
have managed to not think about it too much, however.

Pat

>...........................................................................
>Murray Altheim                         http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
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