RE: RDF Datatyping Working Draft

Patrick,

I find your response interesting, and I will think about it some more.

I am far from convinced - but your argument below might have some merit.

Jeremy

Jeremy:
> > In the datatyping interpretation (following the picture 6.1.3) 
> this entails:
> > 
> > <Jane> <ex:age> _:c .
> > <John> <ex:age> _:c .
> > 
> > but not
> > 
> > <Jane> <ex:age> _:a .
> > <foo> <bar> _:a .

Patrick:
> No. This still holds, if _:a denotes the literal "25". I.e. both
> Jane and foo have a property which share the same object node,
> the literal node "25".
> 
> What would not hold is
> 
>    foo bar _:c .
> 
> Thus, more explicitly, both of the following are true in the
> datatyping interpretation:
> 
>    Jane ex:age <val:(http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema%23integer)25> .
>    John ex:age <val:(http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema%23integer)25> .
> 
> and also
> 
>    Jane ex:age "25" .  # this doesn't change
>    foo bar "25" .
> 
> but not
> 
>    foo bar <val:(http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema%23integer)25> .
>  
> Is there really non-montonicity here?
> 
> 

Received on Thursday, 4 April 2002 04:27:51 UTC