- From: Jos de Bruijn <debruijn@inf.unibz.it>
 - Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:30:07 +0100
 - To: RIF WG <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
 - Message-ID: <4949371F.50503@inf.unibz.it>
 
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/SWC#Embedding_Normalized_OWL_2_RL
I did not yet check it thoroughly, but I think the embedding is already
close to a version that works.
The embedding does not use negative guards.  Rather, it axiomatizes the
behavior through a number of constraints.  For example, to ensure that
values that are not in the value space of a particular datatype do not
end up in its class extension, we use formulas:
("a"="b" :- tr(s^^u)[rdf:type -> u']) for every well-typed literal s^^u
and datatype identifier u' in V such that L2V(D(u))(s) is not in the
value space of u'.
This is analogous to the dt-not-type rule in Table 8 of the OWL 2 RL
rules in [1].
This confirms my suspicion that RDF and OWL compatibility does not
require negative guards.
As far as I'm concerned we can get rid of them.
Best, Jos
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-profiles-20081202/
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