- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:01:39 -0500
- To: Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>
- Cc: nathan@webr3.org, semantic-web@w3.org, public-lod@w3.org
On Sep 23, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Martin Hepp wrote: > Hi all: > Thanks! So I understand that for an owl:DatatypeProperty that may hold xsd:float, xsd:integer, xsd:int, xsd:double, or xsd:decimal values, the simplest solution is rdfs:Literal. > > Is that correct? > > xsd:decimal would include xsd:integer and xsd:int (?), but there is no standard datatype that defines the union of float/double/decimal. > > Any other solutions? Well, you could define your own datatype which is the union of these, in the required sense. That might be generally useful in any case, and might get used more widely if you were to publicize it. Um, does it have to be a datatype? You really just need a class containing the relevant values, right? And this class is simply the union of the 5 datatype value classes. Pat Hayes > > Best > > Martin > > > On 23.09.2010, at 14:59, Nathan wrote: > >> Martin Hepp wrote: >>> Dear all: >>> Are there any theoretical or practical problems caused by defining the range of an owl:DatatypeProperty as >>> http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#anySimpleType >> >> RDF Semantics has a good discussion on this at: >> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/#dtype_interp >> >> note that: >> "The other built-in XML Schema datatypes are unsuitable for various reasons, and SHOULD NOT be used: xsd:duration does not have a well-defined value space (this may be corrected in later revisions of XML Schema datatypes, in which case the revised datatype would be suitable for use in RDF datatyping); xsd:QName and xsd:ENTITY require an enclosing XML document context; xsd:ID and xsd:IDREF are for cross references within an XML document; xsd:NOTATION is not intended for direct use; xsd:IDREFS, xsd:ENTITIES and xsd:NMTOKENS are sequence-valued datatypes which do not fit the RDF datatype model." >> >> Because a range of xsd:anySimpleType effectively includes/allows the use of xsd:duration and the aforementioned then it may not be the best range. >> >> All "afaict" :) Best, >> >> Nathan >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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