RE: draft responses for LC comment FH3/29

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>From: public-owl-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-owl-wg-request@w3.org]
>On Behalf Of Bijan Parsia
>Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 10:55 AM
>To: Ivan Herman
>Cc: Ian Horrocks; W3C OWL Working Group
>Subject: Re: draft responses for LC comment FH3/29
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>On 9 Mar 2009, at 09:17, Ivan Herman wrote:
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>> In fact, re-reading Jan's comments, I realize that his remark is a
>> little bit different. He understands that the motivation for having
>> OWL/XML is to have something that works well in an XML infrastructure
>> but his claim is that an RDF WG should come up with an XML encoding of
>> RDF that would play well with XML (and use that to encode OWL) rather
>> than having a separate OWL/XML syntax.
>
>One must remember that OWL has a structure that is "above" the triple
>level. So, adopting Trix, for example, doesn't really make the *OWL*
>aspects of the ontology salient and natural to the XML toolchain.

Agreed! The OWL/XML syntax is /OWL/ specific, it is a syntax that directly
supports specifying an OWL ontology as a set of axioms (and other OWL
specific components). It's clear that producing such a kind of syntax is
really not in the responsibility of an RDF WG. And it should at least be
acceptable that an OWL WG /may/ produce such a "genuine" XML syntax. Just as
other SemWeb languages do, such as SWRL, RIF and Powder.

Michael

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