- From: Tom Van Eetvelde <tom.van_eetvelde@alcatel.be>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:26:30 +0200
- To: "www-rdf-interest@w3.org" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <39588156.266F2B27@alcatel.be>
Hello RDF community, I have the following practical problem: how can I restrict classes/properties to certain values? I ran into this problem with the creation of a Date class: <rdfs:Class rdf:ID="Range"> <rdfs:Label> Range </rdfs:Label> <rdfs:comment> This class represents an interval. </rdfs:comment> <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="#CompositeValue"/> </rdfs:Class> <rdfs:Property rdf:ID="gr"> <rdfs:label> gr </rdfs:label> <rdfs:comment> The 'GReater than' property. Defines a lower boundary of the range. </rdfs:comment> <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Range"/> </rdfs:Property> <rdfs:Property rdf:ID="ge"> <rdfs:label> ge </rdfs:label> <rdfs:comment> The 'Greater than or Equals' property. Defines a lower boundary of the range. </rdfs:comment> <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Range"/> </rdfs:Property> <rdfs:Property rdf:ID="ls"> <rdfs:label> ls </rdfs:label> <rdfs:comment> The 'LeSs than' property. Defines an upper boundary of the range. </rdfs:comment> <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Range"/> </rdfs:Property> <rdfs:Property rdf:ID="le"> <rdfs:label> le </rdfs:label> <rdfs:comment> The 'Less than or Equals' property. Defines an upper boundary of the range. </rdfs:comment> <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Range"/> </rdfs:Property> <rdfs:Class rdf:ID="Date"> <rdfs:Label> Date </rdfs:Label> <rdfs:comment> This class represents a date in the format DD/MM/YYYY (day-month-year). </rdfs:comment> <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="#CompositeValue"/> </rdfs:Class> <rdfs:Property rdf:ID="day"> <rdfs:label> day </rdfs:label> <rdfs:comment> The day part of the date. </rdfs:comment> <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Date"/> <rdfs:range rdf:resource="#DayRange"/> </rdfs:Property> <rdfs:Property rdf:ID="month"> <rdfs:label> month </rdfs:label> <rdfs:comment> The month part of the date. </rdfs:comment> <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Date"/> <rdfs:range rdf:resource="#MonthRange"/> </rdfs:Property> <rdfs:Property rdf:ID="year"> <rdfs:label> year </rdfs:label> <rdfs:comment> The year part of the date. </rdfs:comment> <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Date"/> <rdfs:range rdf:resource="#YearRange"/> </rdfs:Property> The RDF Shema Spec literally says that 'domain' and 'range' may only have values of the type 'class'. I wanted to make DayRange an instance of the Range class with properties ge = 1 and le = 31. But clearly, the Spec forbids this as I would have a value type of Range <> Class. So, how can I indicate that the Dayrange runs from 1 to 31 (similar question for month and year)? Regards, Tom.
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