RE: ISSUE-124 (datarange complement): The complement of a datarange is defined relative to the whole data domain from Evan Wallace on 2008-05-21 (public-owl-wg@w3.org from May 2008)

From: Evan Wallace <ewallace@cme.nist.gov>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 14:03:02 -0400
To: boris.motik@comlab.ox.ac.uk, "Web Ontology Language ((OWL)) Working Group WG" <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <483463D6.20000@cme.nist.gov>

Boris wrote:

> I really do not expect people to use complemented data ranges directly. Furthermore, if your ontology contains range constraints on
> all data properties, then the complement of data ranges really becomes relative to the datatype of the data range. Most ontologies
> really do contain appropriate range constraints for data properties, so this problem will not be visible.
Can you elaborate on this perhaps with an example?

-Evan

Received on Wednesday, 21 May 2008 18:07:07 UTC