Re: draft response for LC comment 25 RIF2

Looks good to me.

Thanks,
Ian

On 24 Feb 2009, at 17:05, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:

> [Draft Response for LC Comment 25:] RIF2
>
> Dear Chris (and the RIF WG),
>
> Thank you for your message
>   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/2009Jan/ 
> 0032.html
> on the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language last call drafts.
>
> The working group paid close attention to the datatypes that it
> supports.  We examined the XML Schema datatypes to determine those  
> that
> are acceptable for use within OWL.  The datatypes  
> xsd:normalizedString,
> xsd:token, xsd:Name, xsd:NCName, and xsd:NMTOKEN are simply derived  
> from
> xsd:string and pose no problems for OWL 2.  They are therefore  
> included
> in the datatypes of OWL 2.
>
> There was considerable discussion of owl:rational in the working  
> group.
> There are natural uses for owl:rational (for example in recipes) but
> another reason to include owl:rational is to support n-ary datatypes
> with linear equations in data ranges.  This optional extension to  
> OWL 2
> is in preparation; the current document can be found at
> http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Data_Range_Extension:_Linear_Equations
>
> The OWL working group is interested in there being a set of Web
> compatible datatypes. Toward that end, the OWL working group will work
> with the RIF working group to describe and extend the set of datatypes
> supported by both OWL and RIF.
>
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>
> Regards,
> Peter F. Patel-Schneider
> on behalf of the W3C OWL Working Group
>

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