Re: draft response for 43b ZW3b

Peter,

Looks great to me!

Thanks,
Zhe

Ian Horrocks wrote:
> Looks fine to me (modulo missing link to diffs).
>
> Ian
>
>
> On 24 Feb 2009, at 15:42, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>
>> [Draft Response for LC Comment 43b:] ZW2b
>>
>> Dear Zhe,
>>
>> Thank you for your message
>>   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-wg/2009Jan/0083.html
>> on the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language last call drafts.
>>
>> Your message contains multiple sections, affecting more than one
>> document, and will thus generate multiple replies.  This response
>> is for sections 4 and 8 about the datatypes in OWL 2 RL.
>>
>> We have adjusted the datatypes of OWL 2 RL to include those XML Schema
>> datatypes that are derived from xsd:string and xsd:integer, including
>> xsd:positiveInteger.  These were excluded from OWL 2 RL because of a
>> mistaken analogy with OWL 2 EL and OWL 2 QL, namely that intersection of
>> value spaces must be either empty or infinite to maintain the desired
>> properties of the profile.  It turns out that this is not needed in OWL
>> 2 RL to obtain its desired computational properties.  As any OWL 2 RL
>> tool has to process xsd: string and xsd:integer, the added
>> implementation burden to support these datatypes is negligible.
>>
>> The situation with owl:rational and owl:real is different.  The working
>> group has received complaints that implementing
>> these datatypes may require significant effort on top of a rule
>> reasoner.  Therefore owl:rational and owl:real have been removed from
>> OWL 2 RL.  This possibility was mentioned in Feature At Risk #2.
>>
>> The diffs for these changes can be found at
>> .....
>>
>> The working group notes that Oracle has also brought up concerns with
>> the treatment of xsd:float and xsd:double.  These two datatypes are not
>> currently part of OWL 2 RL.   If this situation changes the working
>> group will communicate with you.
>>
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>>
>> Regards,
>> Peter F. Patel-Schneider
>> on behalf of the W3C OWL Working Group
>>
>
>

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