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Re: Where are the semantics in the semantic Web?

From: <jeff@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 03:10:15 +0000
Message-ID: <1132888215.43868097c002e@mail.inf.ed.ac.uk>
To: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>
Cc: public-sws-ig@w3.org 

Quoting Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>:

> ... XML Schemas do *not* provide class definitions of abstractions of
> the real world, but provide data-typing and constraint information for a
> group of vanilla XML document or data.

XML schemas can provide class definitions of abstractions of the
real world just as class definitions in programming languages can.
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