RE: [RIF] homework for 10/17 telecon

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 20:40 +0200, Gerd Wagner wrote:
[...]
> Sure, you can map it in this way, but I don't see how you can 
> reconstruct the typing information at the interchange destination 
> side easily from such a reduced representation. How can you 
> reconstruct, e.g., the destination SWRL atom
> 
>    customer( I-variable(sCart) I-variable(cust))
> 
> from the following concjunction of three atoms
> 
>    ShoppingCart( sCart) & Customer( cust) & customer( sCart, cust)
> 
> in a language where monadic predicates do not necessarily express 
> types?

I don't know. Thanks for the example. I hope to study it further.

I'm also interested to study XML syntax designs that meet
these typing requirements. If anyone has already sketched
one, I'd appreciate a pointer.


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