RE: LANG: owl:ontology

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> As this dicsussion moves on, I'm becoming more confused.  Isn't a
> daml:ontology simply a tag that wraps all the statements that are
> "in" the
> ontology?
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No.
Conventionally the ontology element is the first child of the rdf element,
and the triples in the ontology are shown in other children of the rdf
element.

e.g.

<rdf:RDF>
  <daml:Ontology rdf:about="">
     <daml:version>1.0</daml:version>
  <daml:Ontology>
  <daml:Class rdf:ID="Foo" />
  <!-- ... -->
</rdf:RDF>

The "" in the rdf:about refers to the current document. (it is referred to
in RFC2396 as a same document reference)

Peter's analysis about documents unfortunately makes a lot of sense, and
points to a weakness of RDF's triple model that there is no treatment of
documents.

Jeremy