[LC Response] To Michael Schneider Re: Declaration( Datatype( DT ) ) from Peter F. Patel-Schneider on 2009-03-18 (public-owl-wg@w3.org from March 2009)

From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:13:42 -0400 (EDT)
To: schneid@fzi.de
Cc: public-owl-wg@w3.org
Message-Id: <20090318.151342.264325041.pfps@research.bell-labs.com>

Dear Michael,

Thank you for your sixth 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 three
reasons:

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

2/ To better capture RDF graphs with typing triples.

3/ To allow for named dataranges.

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

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