Re: [oil2xsd] DAML+OIL support

[Stefan Merten]

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Hi Iryna!

5 days ago Iryna Gurevych wrote:
> we would like to propose a further enhancement to the oil2xsd suite,
> so it will also support the transformation of DAML+OIL definitions
> to an XML schema.

Since DAML+OIL seems to be the de facto standard already this would be
useful for sure.

> You may want to have a look at the language specification at
> http://www.daml.org/2001/03/daml+oil-index.html.

Thanks for the pointer.

> We find the reference description of DAML+OIL
> (http://www.daml.org/2001/03/reference) particularly helpful to
> understand a few differencies in the semantics of OIL and DAML+OIL.

Indeed this seems to be a concise and understandable reference. I
think it would be good to post it to this list and then discuss the
necessary changes. I'll give it a start.

> But for these differencies, the DAML+OIL support apparently boils
> down to identifiying DAML+OIL constructions corresponding to OIL
> constructions and changing the stylesheets accordingly. So the good
> news: the algorithms behind transformation presumably should not be
> changed (unless we want that).  

This is really good news :-) .

> It goes without saying, we are ready to discuss further details any time.

I'm tied by my job until December, 6th. After that and perhaps before
some vacation there will be more room for operations like this than at
the moment.

When would you like to use such an extension to `oil2xsd'?


                                                Grüße

                                                Stefan

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