draft response for LC comment 20 JDB1

[Draft Response for LC Comment 20:] JDB1

Dear Jos,

Thank you for your message
  <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/2009Jan/0022.html>
on the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language last call drafts.
 
You are correct that OWL 2 RL does not need the intersection of
datatypes to be empty or infinite.  Accordingly the datatypes in OWL 2
RL have been adjusted to include all the OWL datatypes that are
restrictions of xsd:decimal and xsd:string and also xsd:boolean.

In response to another comment 
  <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-wg/2009Jan/0083.html>
on the difficulty of implementing datatypes in rules systems, 
owl:real and owl:rational 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
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?title=Profiles&diff=18687&oldid=18109

Implementation difficulties have resulted in xsd:float and xsd:double 
remaining out of OWL 2 RL.  If these difficulties can be overcome the
two datatypes may be included in OWL 2 RL.  If changes occurs the
working
group will notify you.

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Regards,
Peter F. Patel-Schneider
on behalf of the W3C OWL Working Group

Received on Wednesday, 4 March 2009 01:28:30 UTC