Re: Describing Trees in OWL?

• From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
• Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:09:20 +0100
• To: Stephan Opfer <stephan.opfer@gmx.net>
• Cc: public-owl-dev@w3.org
• Message-Id: <16362AED-9946-404D-9A7C-9A3216F0C6E0@cs.man.ac.uk>

On 31 May 2012, at 09:40, Stephan Opfer wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I recently noticed, that although the model of an owl axiom should have
> tree property, it is not possible to describe a tree data structure in
> OWL. The way I would model it, is to create a class Node and a property
> hasChild and make the hasChild property transitive and irreflexive,

This would be wrong. In trees, "hasChild" is not transitive.

Cheers,
Bijan.

Received on Thursday, 31 May 2012 13:09:49 UTC