Re: shapes-ISSUE-101 (templates as classes): use of rdfs:subClassOf for template inheritance from Holger Knublauch on 2015-10-08 (public-data-shapes-wg@w3.org from October 2015)

From: Holger Knublauch <holger@topquadrant.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 06:14:14 +1000
To: public-data-shapes-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <5616CE96.5070409@topquadrant.com>

On 10/8/15 11:24 PM, RDF Data Shapes Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
> shapes-ISSUE-101 (templates as classes): use of rdfs:subClassOf for template inheritance
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> http://www.w3.org/2014/data-shapes/track/issues/101
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> Raised by: Peter Patel-Schneider
> On product:
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> rdfs:subClassOf is the subclass relationship between RDFS classes.
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> SHACL uses rdfs:subClassOf for template inheritance.  This implies that SHACL templates are RDFS classes, which is not correct.

Why is this not correct?

Holger


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> Some other mechanism should be used to include the effects of one template in another.
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Received on Thursday, 8 October 2015 20:14:47 UTC