- From: Ian Horrocks <ian.horrocks@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:09:30 +0000
- To: Frank van Harmelen <Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl>
- Cc: public-owl-comments@w3.org
Dear Frank,
Thank you for your comment
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/
2009Jan/0036.html>
on the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language last call drafts.
We would like to stress that RDF/XML is the only syntax that MUST be
supported by implementations; support for the XML syntax is not
required. We have revised several of the documents and introduced a
new Document Overview [3] in order to make this clearer.
The XML syntax is motivated by the desire to support OWL users who
want better interoperability with XML based tools and languages, for
example WSDL, XSLT/XQuery/XPath, or schema aware editors. An
additional benefit is that XML data can be exposed to RDF/OWL
applications using GRDDL (see [1]). We agree that it is worthwhile to
mention this in New Features and Rationale [2], and the current
version of the document has already been improved in this respect.
[1] http://www.w3.org/2008/06/wiki_scribe/?source=http://www.w3.org/
2007/OWL/wiki/Chatlog_2009-02-24#resolution_16
[2] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/New_Features_and_Rationale
[3] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Document_Overview
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Regards,
Ian Horrocks
on behalf of the W3C OWL Working Group
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