Re: OWL (or RDFS) and RDF and language tags

Bijan Parsia wrote:
> 
> Oh, another possibility is to use some derivation of xsd:string + 
> pattern facets to constrain oneself to ones ending with, e.g., @en. 
> Unfortunately, at the moment, I don't think any current reason supports 
> pattern facets, though I imagine that will change soon:
>     http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pTmcCXR-dV6RpTEPxB0O-DQ
> 
> You would still have to convert to/fro normal langed literals, so that's 
> a bit unfortunate.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bijan.
> 

No won't work.
An xsd:string has no language tag.

A range being rdfs:Literal without any of the typed literals (including 
xsd:string) is what you want.

There may be some way of specifying this, but it won't work in any tool 
whatsoever, let alone interoperably. (Well - it will fail to work 
interoperably :) ).

e.g.

<rdf:Property rdf:ID="naturalLanguageDescription">
    <rdfs:range>
       <owl:DataRange>
          <owl:intersectionOf rdf:parseType="Collection">
             <rdfs:Class rdf:resource="&rdfs;Literal" />
             <owl:Class>
               <owl:complementOf rdf:resource="&xsd;string" />
             </owl:Class>
          </owl:intersectionOf>
        </owl:DataRange>
    </rdfs:range>
</rdf:Property>

(which permits dates and integers etc in the range)

Jeremy