RE: Design Issue (4) - constraining 'descriptor'/'prefLabel' card inality for multilingual thesauri

Clarification to my mail.

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Brickley [mailto:danbri@w3.org] 
> 
> 
> You could, if you like the basic data structure, do something 
> with the same shaped graph as your proposal, just not use 
> rdf:Alt. eg. invent a class to replace Alt, and named 
> properties (or rdf:value
> perhaps) for the pointers from its instance to the bits of 
> lang-tagged text.

That was the intention behind my suggestion [1]
ie 'alternative' != rdf:Alt. 

> 
> Backing up a bit, is there a lot of value in having a cardinality 
> constraint on soks:descriptor? 

So using xml language tags to avoid the RDF clumsiness in [2]. Cool.

Steve

[1] 
<concept> 
	:hasDescriptor [:alternative [:inLanguage <French>; :value "chaud"];
:alternative [:inLanguage <English>; :value "hot"]] .
[2]
<concept> 
   :hasDescriptor [:inLanguage <French>; :value "chaud"];   
   :hasDescriptor [:inLanguage <English>; :value "hot"] .