Re: XSL/XML Query functions and operators namespace document

On Apr 15, 2005, at 12:51 PM, Dan Connolly wrote:
>>
>> One thing I didn't get to do in time for this round was make it a
>> proper RDDL document. There's some irony in that, to be sure, but I'm
>> not sure what the nature and purpose URIs should be for function
>> definitions anyway.
>
> (double-checking... http://www.rddl.org/#nature is like rdf:type
> and each purpose is like an RDF property... ok...)
>
> I think a/the nature (i.e. rdf:type) of an XQuery function
> is owl:FunctionalProperty.
>
> I can't think of any relevant uses of rddl:purpose.
>

Interesting ... it seems to me that the definition of a function is 
when one's nature and purpose are the same thing e.g. xquery:function 
where
xquery:function rdfs:subClassOf owl:FunctionalProperty.

Jonathan