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(unknown charset) Re: extend an Ontology

From: (unknown charset) Wolfgang Nejdl <nejdl@kbs.uni-hannover.de>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 17:39:21 +0200
Message-Id: <200110131539.f9DFdL603616@liszt.kbs.uni-hannover.de>
To: (unknown charset) "Charlie Abela" <abcharl@maltanet.net>
cc: (unknown charset) www-rdf-logic@w3.org
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> I think I did not express my self clearly… or else I did not fully
> understand the reply
> 
> What I had in mind is, in an existing ontology one of the ObjectProperties
> is applicable over a certain range… Would it be possible to use the same
> property but use a different range..In this case the range is another class?
> 

No, you can only restrict the range of the property, not change it
completely to another range (in DAML+OIL; in RDFS you can't even do
that, because only one range is allowed per property)

Wolfgang

> Thanks again.
> Charlie
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