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Re: draft response to LC comment 60/JC2

From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:45:06 -0400
Message-ID: <29af5e2d0903162145q23d0a269r6e226452ccf17d51@mail.gmail.com>
To: Ian Horrocks <ian.horrocks@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
Cc: OWL Working Group WG <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
Yes. My bad.
Thanks,
Alan

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Ian Horrocks
<ian.horrocks@comlab.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> The definition that refers to the mapping is only "For documents using the
> RDF/XML serialization" -- this is clearly stated before the main
> definitions. It then goes on to say "For documents using other
> serializations ..." and to give an example of how this works for XML syntax.
>
> Ian
>
>
> On 16 Mar 2009, at 17:50, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
>
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>> As written, this doesn't seem to work. The definition says
>> "successfully parsed using the canonical parsing process as defined in
>> the OWL 2 Syntax specification [OWL 2 Specification] and the procedure
>> for mapping from RDF graphs to the structural specification described
>> in the OWL 2 Mapping to RDF Graphs [OWL 2 Mapping to RDF Graphs]".
>> Then it says: "An XML document is an OWL 2 DL ontology document
>> iff...". But as an XML document is not parsed using the OWL 2 Mapping
>> to RDF Graphs, this can't be satisfied.
>>
>> -Alan
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Ian Horrocks
>> <ian.horrocks@comlab.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Jeremy,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your comment
>>>
>>>
>>> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/2009Feb/0008.html>
>>> on the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language last call drafts.
>>>
>>> Thank you for pointing out this problem. The Syntactic Conformance
>>> section
>>> of the Conformance and Test Cases document (see [1]) has been revised to
>>> be
>>> clearer in general and to rectify these problems in particular. The main
>>> definitions of the different kinds of ontology documents now refer
>>> explicitly to the RDF/XML syntax and are now complete definitions, e.g.:
>>>
>>> "An OWL 2 DL ontology document is an OWL 2 Full ontology document that
>>> can
>>> be successfully parsed using the canonical parsing process as defined in
>>> the
>>> OWL 2 Syntax specification [OWL 2 Specification] and the procedure for
>>> mapping from RDF graphs to the structural specification described in the
>>> OWL
>>> 2 Mapping to RDF Graphs [OWL 2 Mapping to RDF Graphs] to produce an
>>> instance
>>> of the OWL 2 ontology class satisfying all of the restrictions described
>>> in
>>> Section 3 of the OWL 2 Syntax specification [OWL 2 Specification]."
>>>
>>> Similarly, the example is now specific to the XML syntax. It says "An XML
>>> document is an OWL 2 DL ontology document iff [certain conditions are
>>> met]";
>>> i.e., an XML document is an OWL 2 DL ontology document if said conditions
>>> are met, and it is not an OWL 2 DL ontology document if said conditions
>>> are
>>> not met.
>>>
>>> [1]
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Conformance_and_Test_Cases#Syntactic_Conformance
>>>
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>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ian Horrocks
>>> on behalf of the W3C OWL Working Group
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
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