draft response for LC comment 65 MS8

[Draft Response for LC Comment 65:] MS8

Dear Michael,

Thank you for your eighth message
  <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-wg/2009Mar/0000.html>
on the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language last call drafts.
 
Datatype declarations are currently in the functional syntax for two
reasons:

1/ For symmetry, allowing all entities to be declared.

2/ To better capture RDF graphs with typing triples.

As well, the working group is currently contemplating adding the ability
to have named data ranges, which would be non-built-in datatypes.
Declaring datatypes would form part of the support for this new feature.

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

Received on Thursday, 5 March 2009 04:19:18 UTC