[SCL] Re: Minor addendum

[Pat Hayes]

>Pat,
>
>As I said, there's no quarrel about XML.

But there is. Harry and I have already had it.

>
>Re abstract syntax:  I like the idea, but there's
>no time to do it right.  Let's just go with the
>LISP-like notation as the default.

The current core notation isnt fully liSP-like, but Im trying to fix 
that right now. Its important to Mike Gr that it be as close as 
possible to a subset of KIF 3.0, which means it needs to be reworked.

>
>PH> What group or body of people do you think
>>  are going to write these versions?
>
>There will be *exactly one* technical standard.

No, there will not. Unless you write it, maybe.

>The W3C document that contains that standard
>will be in HTML.  Harry will take that HTML,
>put it into MS Word with the ISO template.
>That will be the ISO version.
>
>That's it.

Thats not it. At the very least they need to be edited and formatted 
differently and will use different language and conventions; but in 
any case there are intellectual divisions and differences of aim and 
purpose and motive. Mike Gr and Harry have very clear ideas about how 
the ISO stuff will be presented. They do not fit well with how I want 
to present the material and how the XML syntax will be integrated. 
In any case there is not time now to do this, even if we had agreed 
as a group to do it, which we have never have.

Im sure we will work something out. But it really will be different 
than this simple vision and will take a lot more work.

Pat


>
>John


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