- From: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 21:50:23 -0500
- To: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
- Cc: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
Herman, with reference to your comment http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2003AprJun/0042.html archived as horst-01, the situation has been resolved as follows. Details can be checked in the current editor's draft at http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes/RDF_Semant_Edit_Weak.html First, many thanks for your close attention to the technical matters and your helpful comments, which have required the WG to re-examine several of its earlier decisions. The RDS semantic conditions on subClassOf and subPropertyOf have been weakened to be 'only if' rather than 'iff' conditions; under these conditions, the entailments that you noted are no longer valid. The document mentions the stronger (iff) conditions under the heading 'extensional semantic conditions', and describes some inference rules which are valid under these stronger conditions, including rules which cover the case you describe; but it does not claim to offer a complete set of such rules for these stronger conditions. A proof of the completeness of the (somewhat shortened) list of RDFS rules WRT the weakened semantic conditions is provided in appendix B. As you will see, most of the complexity of the proof has to do with the treatment of literals; the RDFS rules correspondence is now straightforward since all the semantic conditions map directly into forward implications. Please reply to this message, copying www-rdf-comments@w3.org, indicating whether this response addresses your comment adequately. Sincerely -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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