- From: Ian Horrocks <horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:04:24 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Stefan Decker <stefan@db.stanford.edu>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org, sintek@smi.stanford.edu
Stefan, In general one wouldn't expect a sub-property of a transitive property to be transitive itself, e.g., parent as a sub-property of ancestor. Ian On January 24, Stefan Decker writes: > Dear interest group, > > according to the RDF Schema specification http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/ > the rdfs:subClassOf property is transitive (see > http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/#s2.3.2 ). > > Now: is a subproperty of rdfs:subClassOf also supposed to be transitive? > The specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/#s2.3.3) doesn't mention > this > case. > > Thanks and all the best, > > Stefan > > >
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