Re: Datatyping issue, too many options?

>On 2002-03-12 14:04, "ext Graham Klyne" <GK@NineByNine.org> wrote:
>
>
>>  A very much lesser possible issue:  is the name "rdfs:drange" appropriate
>>  for its use to indicate allowable lexical forms?
>
>Since rdfs:drange has no semantic relationship to rdfs:range and
>does not in fact define any constraints which can be tested by
>a generic RDFS Validator, it seems that a different name would be
>a good idea.
>
>Jos and I had discussed the possibility of rdfs:datatype, and
>some of my N3 examples at the f2f reflected that.
>
>What rdfs:datatype (rdfs:drange) is really doing is simply associating
>a datatype with a property, so that some extra-RDF application is
>aware of the datatype context within which values of either idiom
>are to be interpreted.

Right, exactly. I would be happy with that change. We ought, however, 
to make it very clear that this association of a datatype only 
applies to the objects of the property, not their subjects. And be 
ready for someone to complain that it ought to apply to subjects 
too....

Pat

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