Jirtme BERNARD wrote: > The reason was that we were in need of having marketing guys writing > rules... > And asking some marketing guys to write some Jess code would have been > non-sense. Our XML format was really simple and we wrote a small GUI on > top of it that allowed easily to create/modify/delete rules.
So for you in particular because you mentioned putting a GUI on top of it, as well as for the other people who responded about this, why XML? If there's a GUI for it then it might as well be Jess underneath, it's obscured. Arguably, simple Jess code has a much cleaner form than any XML document is going to have, especially if you start working procedural code into the right hand side. Certainly I don't buy that everyone's interested in XML because they want to embed the stuff into webpages, as Semantic Web people would put forth as a pro-XML argument. The parsing argument doesn't really fly for me either; LISP/KIF-styled languages (as Jess clearly is, unless ejfried objects) are almost inarguably easier to parse than XML documents and the quantitave argument that there are more XML parsers than KIFish parsers is weak in light of qualitative advantages (to my mind at least). My concern stems from core skepticisms in some of my own Semantic-Web related work, which in part comes down to: Why XML (and RDF & DAML, etc) now and not KIF (and subsets of KIF) 20 years ago? To make it more on topic, why not a subset of KIF to exchange rules instead of RuleML? Is there a substantial argument there, or is it just the result of a large group of people (eg: W3C) realizing the power of knowledge representation and insisting on using their own formats instead of established mechanisms (ironically, not following standards)? -- - joe kopena -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
