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Re: can we use lower case to start Top/Bottom role names?

From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:52:48 +0200
Message-ID: <48F71D00.9060707@w3.org>
To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
CC: Boris Motik <boris.motik@comlab.ox.ac.uk>, 'Zhe Wu' <alan.wu@oracle.com>, public-owl-wg@w3.org
At some point in the past I think Boris told me that using upper case
made these properties in line with the naming of owl:Thing and
owl:Nothing... That argument has some merit.

Ivan

Bijan Parsia wrote:
> 
> It is the normal convention. The only possible motivation otherwise that
> I can come up with is that breaking the convention singles that these
> properties are "weird" and perhaps should be used with care. Pfft. I
> doubt that it's worth it or a good signal overall.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bijan.
> 

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