- From: Evan Wallace <ewallace@cme.nist.gov>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:28:40 -0400
- To: "OWL 1.1" <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > Hypothetically, if we had only had the object/metamodel, and > documented the global restrictions on axioms in terms of the > metamodel, what would we lose (other than a syntax that not many are > likely to use). > > Thanks, > > -Alan The functional syntax gives a concrete and concise form to describe language elements in the the Model-Theoretic Semantics (the role of the Abstract Syntax in OWL 1) and the Mapping to RDF Graphs. Without it what would you use for the semantics: XMI* fragments or the XML serialization? * XMI : XML Metadata Interchange - a mapping of MOF to XML -Evan
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