- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:50:06 +0000
- To: W3C OWL Working Group <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
On 6 Mar 2009, at 19:43, Ian Horrocks wrote:
> I agree. The grammar productions could be off-putting to many people
> and significantly reduce its utility for them. I don't see a
> compensating increase in utility for others.
>
> IMHO it would make *much* more sense to replicate the presentation
> style of the Quick Reference Guide (as suggested by Uli). E.g., for
> disjoint union, instead of:
>
> DisjointUnion := 'DisjointUnion' '(' { Annotation } Class
> ClassExpression ClassExpression { ClassExpression } ')'
>
> you could have:
>
> DisjointUnionOf(C C1 … Cn), where C and Ci are OWL classes
That seems reasonable to me.
> This is much easier to understand and much less "threatening". And
> if this is right for the QR, then surely it is also right for NF&R.
Indeed. It solves a lot of problems and is a good idea in its own right.
Cheers,
Bijan.
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