Comment about VCARD/RDF

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hello

The VCARD/RDF Schema (http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0) defines the
different email-types as follows:
(...)
<rdfs:Class rdf:ID="EMAILTYPES"/>
<EMAILTYPES rdf:ID="internet"/>
<EMAILTYPES rdf:ID="x400"/>
<EMAILTYPES rdf:ID="pref"/>
(...)

The different types of emails are not themself defined as classes, I
think they should be, since the range of RDF.type is RDFS.Class.

The following from an example on http://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf
(...)
<vCard:EMAIL rdf:parseType="Resource">
~        <rdf:value> corky@qqqfoo.com </rdf:value>
~        <rdf:type
rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0#internet"/>
~      </vCard:EMAIL>
(...)
is not  legal if http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0#internet is not an
RDFS.Class. Of course the curent schema does not say that "internet" is
not a class but what's the use of a schemas when classes cannot be
recognised as such?

A solution would be:
(...)
<rdfs:Class rdf:ID="EMAILTYPES"/>
<EMAILTYPES rdf:ID="internet">
	<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class"/>
</EMAILTYPES>
(...)

Another solution would be:
(...)
<rdfs:Class rdf:ID="EMAILTYPES">
~ <rdfs:subClassOf
rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class/>
</rdfs:Class>
<EMAILTYPES rdf:ID="internet"/>
<EMAILTYPES rdf:ID="x400"/>
<EMAILTYPES rdf:ID="pref"/>
(...)

Cheers,
Reto
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Received on Tuesday, 26 August 2003 09:05:47 UTC