RE: Why do you want to do that?

Hi Frank!

Frank Manola wrote:

>There aren't any classes in RDF (per se);  in RDFS there are classes,
>and they can be treated as individuals (which is where we came in,
>more or less).  

As a minor remark, I think it's easier to understand the situation of
classes in RDFS, if one states the above sentence the other way around: In
RDFS there are individuals (aka resources), and some of them can be treated
as classes, namely those which happen to have a class extension associated
with them. Analog, some individuals have a property extension associated
with them, and are therefore properties. An individual may even act as both,
a class *and* a property, if it has both a class extension and a property
extension associated. But in any case (as you say), all classes and
properties are individuals, which exist in the RDFS universe, i.e. the
domain of discourse. 

>That is, in RDFS a class is a resource (like
>everything else that can be referred to in RDFS), and resources can be
>the subjects of triples.
>
>--Frank

Cheers,
Michael