Re: question on domain

Matthew,
   I wasn't referring to Schematron, but Schemarama.

   Take another look:

   <http://isegserv.itd.rl.ac.uk/schemarama/how.html>

   Schemarama does validation of RDF at the abstract level, not on  
the XML level (which is very difficult, thanks to the enormous  
flexibility of RDF/XML). It serves a similar purpose to Schematron,  
hence the name.

   In a sense, this is a kind of application-level validation -- read  
in some data, and see if it conforms to a test case.

   Advice: treat RDF as a flexible data format, and fail  
appropriately if you can't find out what you need. Don't try to make  
the RDF somehow 'invalid' because a particular chunk does not contain  
the data you wish was there. It might arrive later, or from a  
difference source, or be inferred, and generally failing gently is a  
lot better than crashing and burning because you don't have a  
person's name in your store.

-R

On  21 Apr 2006, at 11:02 AM, Johnson, Matthew C. ((LNG-ALB)) wrote:

> Thinking out loud here...
>
> It seems that schematron (which I do like by the way) would be only
> useful in validating a RDF/XML instance after the fact (outside of the
> RDF parser).  It also would not be much help with non-XML RDF syntax.
>
> It would be nice to be able to actually validate that a class instance
> according to its schema within the parser (after the model has been
> built and the syntax disappears).  But, from the other posts to my
> question, it seems that I may not have fully considered the
> ramifications of the "open world" mentality that was mentioned  
> earlier.
> Does this mentality really mean that validation, in the sense of "a
> person MUST have a name", is too restrictive and that, if  
> necessary, it
> should be done within the application?
>
> By the way, thanks again for the help on my original question.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Newman [mailto:r.newman@reading.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 1:33 PM
> To: Johnson, Matthew C. (LNG-ALB)
> Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
> Subject: Re: question on domain
>
> On  21 Apr 2006, at 7:35 AM, Johnson, Matthew C. ((LNG-ALB)) wrote:
>> Does RDF or RDFS have a mechanism for enforcing/validating the
>> properties that compose a class?  This seems related to the question
>> stated below.
>
> Try something like Schemarama.
>
> <http://ilrt.org/discovery/2001/02/schemarama/>
> <http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/02/07/schemarama.html>
>
> -R