- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 15:57:07 -0600
- To: jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com
- CC: bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com, phayes@ai.uwf.edu, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org, pfps@research.bell-labs.com
jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com wrote: > > > > The real advantage I see is that > > > :s eg:shoeSize [ rdfs:str "10" ]. > > > can be entailed given that > > > :s eg:shoeSize [ rdfs:str "10"; rdf:type dt:decimal ]. > > > (and only in that direction) > > > > > > I'm sorry, I'm being thick again. What's the advantage exactly? To whom? > Does > > this advantage differentiate DanC's proposal from the others? > > > > What I see above is the A & B => A. Which is true, but I miss the > significance. > > [ rdfs:str "10" ] > is what we call the 'least common unifier' of > [ rdfs:str "10" ] and [ rdfs:str "10"; rdf:type dt:decimal ] > and we found that a useful thing for inferencing > that's basically all we wanted to say > (so 'advantage' was rather subjective) > > > Are you suggesting that > > > > <rdf:Description> > > <eg:prop>foo</eg:prop> > > </rdf:Description> > > > > is really shorthand for > > > > <rdf:Description> > > <eg:prop rdfs:str="foo"/> > > </rdf:Description> > > yes Then that's a different proposal. I'm not suggesting that. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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