Why has the RDF mapping conditional mapping rules? (ISSUE-68)

Hi!

In ISSUE-68 [1], which will be discussed in this week's telecon, Jeremy
cites from the RDF mapping WD [2]:

  "DOMAIN[op] expands to rdfs:domain 
  if OnlyOP(op) = true, 
  and to owl11:objectPropertyDomain otherwise"

I notice that there are many conditional rules of the same style in the
FS-to-RDF mapping.

I would like to know: Why are there such conditional rules? Or to put it
differently: Why not just 

  "DOMAIN[op] expands to owl11:objectPropertyDomain"

and analogue for all other cases? 

I can see that there is a statement in [2], saying:

  "For backwards compatibility, OWL 1.1 uses OWL 1.0 
  vocabulary whenever there is no ambiguity."

But I do not understand what advantage have these conditional rules for
backwards compatibility. I do not even understand where the FS-to-RDF
mapping touches questions of backwards compatibility. Isn't backwards
compatibility only a relevant topic for the RDF-2-FS mapping [3] ?

Cheers,
Michael

[1] <http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/tracker/issues/68>
[2]
<http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Mapping_to_RDF_Graphs#Translation_from_Func
tional-Style_Syntax_to_RDF_Graphs>
[3]
<http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Mapping_to_RDF_Graphs#Translation_from_RDF_
Graphs_to_Functional-Style_Syntax>

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