- From: Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 11:22:17 +0100
- To: public-webont-comments@w3.org
- Cc: Www International <www-international@w3.org>
Web Ontology Language (OWL) Use Cases and Requirements W3C Working Draft 31 March 2003 | O11. String manipulation | http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-webont-req-20030331/#obj-string-manipulatio n | | The language should support string concatenation and simple pattern | matching. These features can be used to establish interoperability | between ontologies that treat complex information as a formatted string | and those that have separate properties for each component. For example, | one ontology may represent a person's name as a single string "lastname, | firstname," while another may have a property for each. The concepts "lastname" and "firstname" are not culturally neutral. What is more, they are fairly meaningless, as one culture or person will place the family name last, while another culture or person will place the given name last. If the purpose of such a formatted string were to enable, say, sorting by family name, then this purpose would not be achieved by the construction "lastname, firstname". Please replace "lastname" with "family name" and "firstname" with "given name". Thanks, Misha --------------------------------------------------------------- - Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com Get closer to the financial markets with Reuters Messaging - for more information and to register, visit http://www.reuters.com/messaging Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.
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