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Re: draft public comment for OWL last call from RIF

From: Chris Welty <cawelty@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:41:52 -0500
Message-ID: <497DD9C0.2020502@gmail.com>
To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
CC: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.manchester.ac.uk>, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, Dave Reynolds <der@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, "Public-Rif-Wg (E-mail)" <public-rif-wg@w3.org> 


I'm not current on the OWL spec so I don't know exactly what you mean by 
"support" here.  RIF does allow for user-defined datatypes.  The RIF BLD 
conformance clause paramaterizes RIF conformance wrt a set of supported 
datatypes, however RIF does not provide any particular mechanism for defining 
them, I guess we've been assuming users would use xsd for that.

-Chris

Bijan Parsia wrote:
> Another key point.
> 
> AFAICT, RIF does not support user defined datatypes. OWL does. This is 
> one reason we are more sanguine about adding the additional derived 
> types of xs:string.
> 
> Thus, unless you want to add user defined datatypes (or I'm mistaken 
> about that!) it is futile.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bijan.
> 

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