RE: ISSUE-28 (multiple facets): REPORTED: Multiple facet restrictions per data range

Hello,

I have just extended the structural specification, the XML Schema, and the RDF mapping to allow for multiple facet--value pairs.
Please let me know should you have any comments about it.

Regards,

	Boris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-owl-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-owl-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Boris Motik
> Sent: 07 November 2007 19:54
> To: public-owl-wg@w3.org
> Subject: Re: ISSUE-28 (multiple facets): REPORTED: Multiple facet restrictions per data range
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The DatatypeRestriction class from the conceptual specification could easily be extended to allow for
> multiple facets and
> restriction values. More concretely, Figure 5 could be changed to make the association between
> DatatypeRestriction and Constant of
> cardinality 1 : n and to parameterize the association with a facet.
> 
> Semantically, such multiple facets would be interpreted conjunctively: the resulting datatype is
> obtained by restricting dataRange
> with ALL facets.
> 
> The XML and the RDF syntaxes could easily be extended to reflect this conceptual change.
> 
> The main benefit of this change is that it would be much easier to create data ranges. Currently, you
> need to next descriptions,
> which can be cumbersome in practice.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Boris
>

Received on Wednesday, 21 November 2007 17:49:20 UTC