Proposal for earl:Location

Hi,

The following is a rough proposal for the location class. A location can be one of four types:


Single Location
 - one "pointer" using all means we have (XPath/XPointer/XQuery/Line/Offset/etc) to point to one instance of a location within a subject.

Range Location
 - has two types of "pointers" for start and end (each "pointer" is actually a single location).

Shadow Location
 - same as "range" but with primary/additional "pointers" (that are also single location types).

Compound Location
 - any other unstructured location with one or more "pointers" (single location).


Below is the schema for the location (please note that many details are still to be determined):


<rdfs:Class rdf:about="&earl;Location">
  <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Location</rdfs:label>
  <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">Location for the result within the subject</rdfs:comment>
  <owl:oneOf rdf:parseType="Collection">
    <!--// this is the basic type of location //-->
    <owl:Thing rdf:about="&earl;singleLocation"/>
    <!--// the following are more complex types //-->
    <owl:Thing rdf:about="&earl;rangeLocation"/>
    <owl:Thing rdf:about="&earl;shadowLocation"/>
    <owl:Thing rdf:about="&earl;compoundLocation"/>
    <!--// other types can be added if needed //-->
  </owl:oneOf>
</rdfs:Class>

<rdfs:Class rdf:about="&earl;singleLocation">
  <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Single Location</rdfs:label>
  <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">everything we have to point to a location in a subject</rdfs:comment>
  <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:parseType="Collection">
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&dc;title"/>
      <!--// min / max cardinality constraints //-->
    </owl:Restriction>
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&dc;description"/>
      <!--// min / max cardinality constraints //-->
    </owl:Restriction>
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&earl;Line"/>
      <!--// min / max cardinality constraints //-->
    </owl:Restriction>
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&earl;Column"/>
      <!--// min / max cardinality constraints //-->
    </owl:Restriction>
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&earl;XPath"/>
      <!--// min / max cardinality constraints //-->
    </owl:Restriction>
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&earl;Fuzzy"/>
      <!--// min / max cardinality constraints //-->
    </owl:Restriction>
    <!--// exact locator types are to be determined //-->
  </rdfs:subClassOf>
</rdfs:Class>

<rdfs:Class rdf:about="&earl;rangeLocation">
  <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Range Location</rdfs:label>
  <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">@@@</rdfs:comment>
  <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:parseType="Collection">
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&dc;title"/>
      <!--// min / max cardinality constraints //-->
    </owl:Restriction>
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&dc;description"/>
      <!--// min / max cardinality constraints //-->
    </owl:Restriction>
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&earl;startLocation"/>
      <!--// min / max cardinality constraints //-->
    </owl:Restriction>
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&earl;endLocation"/>
      <!--// min / max cardinality constraints //-->
    </owl:Restriction>
  </rdfs:subClassOf>
</rdfs:Class>

<rdfs:Class rdf:about="&earl;shadowLocation">
  <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Shadow Locator</rdfs:label>
  <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">@@@</rdfs:comment>
  <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:parseType="Collection">
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&dc;title"/>
      <!--// min / max cardinality constraints //-->
    </owl:Restriction>
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&dc;description"/>
      <!--// min / max cardinality constraints //-->
    </owl:Restriction>
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&earl;primaryLocation"/>
      <!--// min / max cardinality constraints //-->
    </owl:Restriction>
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&earl;additionalLocation"/>
      <!--// min / max cardinality constraints //-->
    </owl:Restriction>
  </rdfs:subClassOf>
</rdfs:Class>

<rdfs:Class rdf:about="&earl;compoundLocation">
  <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Shadow Locator</rdfs:label>
  <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">@@@</rdfs:comment>
  <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:parseType="Collection">
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&dc;title"/>
      <!--// min / max cardinality constraints //-->
    </owl:Restriction>
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&dc;description"/>
      <!--// min / max cardinality constraints //-->
    </owl:Restriction>
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="&earl;hasLocation"/>
      <!--// min / max cardinality constraints //-->
    </owl:Restriction>
  </rdfs:subClassOf>
</rdfs:Class>

<rdf:Property rdf:about="&earl;Locator">
  <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Locator</rdfs:label>
  <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">@@@</rdfs:comment>
  <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="&earl;Location"/>
  <rdfs:range rdf:resource="&earl;Location"/>
</rdf:Property>

<rdf:Property rdf:about="&earl;startLocation">
  <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="&earl;Locator"/>
  <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Start Locator</rdfs:label>
  <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">@@@</rdfs:comment>
  <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="&earl;rangeLocation"/>
  <rdfs:range rdf:resource="&earl;singleLocation"/>
</rdf:Property>

<!--// other locator types follow the same schema //-->

<!--// definition of actual location pointed TBD //-->


Regards,
  Shadi


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