swrl.owl is OWL Full and Protege does not support OWL/XML

As this thread points out in
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-rules/2004Aug/0003.html
swrl.owl is OWL Full because of rdf:Property type of argument2.

Maybe this has been pointed out earlier,
but another (and probably more significant) problem is the definition of
AtomList as a subClassOf rdf:List. And OWL normative spec. says clearly
that rdf:List is not in OWL DL.

What are the plans of the JC on this ?

Also, the SWRL spec. seems to prefer the OWL XML presentation syntax over
OWL RDF syntax. A problem for developers and users is that current
ontology editing tools e.g. Protege *do not* work with XML syntax (and
probably they will never). So for any serious use/development, RDF syntax
is a requirement. Hence, swrl.owl is important. What are the plans of JC
on this issue ? is/will RDF syntax be deprecated ?

Thanks,

--
Nirmit Desai
Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science
NC State University

Received on Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:13:02 UTC