Re: [xtm-wg] XTM Processing Model - alternative proposal

[Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>]

Jack, these are great cites/sites.

I encourage everyone interested in "the graph", or who is seeking
formalisms that are quick to develop, to look at them.

Jack, you are The Man!

S.

--- Jack Park <jackpark@verticalnet.com> wrote:
> 
> Google (graph theory bnf) <2330 hits in 0.06 seconds> and you quickly
> find
> out which .edus offer graph theory and bnf courses.  This hit:
> http://life.csu.edu.au/~dgreen/papers/simul.html
> has a partial listing of bnf for a graph simulation (figure 4). The
> page is
> really slow to download, so there may be more but I don't have the
> time to
> wait for it.
> http://cui.unige.ch/eao/grammed/doc/diplome.html looks really
> interesting.
> Can't wait to spend more time on that page.
> 
> Jack
> 
> From: Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>
> To: <xtm-wg@yahoogroups.com>
> Cc: pascal auillans <auillans@labri.u-bordeaux.fr>; jean delahousse
> <jean.delahousse@mondeca.com>; laurent olivry
> <laurent.olivry@wanadoo.fr>
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 9:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [xtm-wg] XTM Processing Model - alternative proposal
> 
> 
> > [sam]
> > > I use the productions in XML all the time as a
> > > | teaching tool, and also to check and test conformance.
> >
> > [lars]
> > > What I meant was that it would seem very strange for the model to
> say
> > > something along the lines of "This model uses formalism foo, and
> this
> > > formalism must be easy to learn and use." The requirements could
> very
> > > well say something like this, and perhaps they should, but I
> think it
> > > would look strange in the model itself.
> >
> > I am advocating such a statement in the requirements. I am not sure
> > what you mean by "in the model"? Are you identifying "mode" with
> > "specification document"?
> >
> > My perspective (perhaps my paranoia) on this is that the choice of
> > notation is key to pedagogy. In XML 1.0, there was a decade of
> > experience with productions, there was BNF, etc. We don't have a
> > similar history in XTM.
> >
> > Say, I wonder if there is a BNF notation for graphs? Anyone know?
> > Pascal? Jean? Laurent?
> >
> > S.
> 
> 
> 
>
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