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Re: Datatype Defaulting in OWL

From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:23:03 +0000
Message-ID: <47456697.7080707@hpl.hp.com>
To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@miscoranda.com>
CC: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>, SW-forum Web <semantic-web@w3.org>

Sean B. Palmer wrote:

> http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-xsch-datatypes/#sec-use-amapping
> - 3.6 Value Approximate Mapping
> 
> As far as I understand it, with aeq you can map some values from
> plain/xsd:string to xsd:integer, but I'm not sure what the exact
> machinery for doing so would be. In other words, how to go from the
> rough idea of aeq in that WG note draft to something that I can
> actually use in my ontology... :-)
> 
> Perhaps there should be a SWBP note for people who want to understand
> how best to formalise entailments in a new RDF application, language,
> specification, etc.?
>

sorry to disappoint you Sean, but that section is about XSD numbers. The 
problem it is trying to address is that (at least arguably) xsd:decimal 
is one set of numbers and xsd:float is a disjoint set, and xsd:double is 
yet another disjoint set.

Jeremy
Received on Thursday, 22 November 2007 11:23:30 GMT

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