RE: rdf for object serialization

Hi,

I'm not sure I understand.

What you have are two different properties that simply happen to be both
called  'child'.

As they are different they should have two different URIs and be described
separatly.

Why using 'facets'?

Thanks

  titto

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Decker [mailto:stefan@db.stanford.edu]
> Sent: 29 February 2000 22:04
> To: haustein@kimo.cs.uni-dortmund.de; www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> Subject: Re: rdf for object serialization
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this was indeed already discussed a few weeks ago.
> See:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/1999Dec/0113.html
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/1999Dec/0115.html
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/1999Dec/0147.html
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Jan/0020.html
> 
> The discussion has not lead to a useful solution,  but i *needed* a 
> solution for this problem
> for the Protege RDF-storage infrastructure.
> So my solution was to use facets for properties in a 
> namespace "rdfutil" 
> (which is preliminary)
> which allows to define multiple domains and ranges.
> A property can have multiple "facetResources", which defines a set of 
> facets for the property separately.
> In your example the property "child" would have two 
> "facetResources", one 
> for each domain.
> 
> The documentation of the rdfutil-namespace is in preparation 
> (it contains 
> also cardinality-constraints etc., which
> were also needed for the protege-RDF serialization.
> 
> So the RDF-serialization of
> 
> >class Person {
> >   String name;
> >   Person child;
> >}
> >
> >class Node {
> >   Object content;
> >   Node child;
> >}
> is (i omitted "content" and "name")
> 
> 
>   <?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>
> <!-- Version Tue Feb 29 13:45:11 PST 2000 -->
> <rdf:RDF
>   xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
>   xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/PR-rdf-schema-19990303#"
>   xmlns:rdfutil="http://www.w3.org/rdfutil#">
> 
>   <rdfs:Class rdf:ID="#Node"/>
> 
>   <rdfs:Class rdf:ID="#Person"/>
> 
>   <rdfs:Property rdf:ID="child">
>     <rdfutil:facets>
>      <rdfutil:facetResource>
>       <rdfutil:domain rdf:resource="#Node"/>
>       <rdfutil:range rdf:resource="#Node"/>
>      </rdfutil:facetResource>
>     </rdfutil:facets>
> 
>     <rdfutil:facets>
>      <rdfutil:facetResource>
>       <rdfutil:domain rdf:resource="#Person"/>
>       <rdfutil:range rdf:resource="#Person"/>
>      </rdfutil:facetResource>
>     </rdfutil:facets>
> 
>   </rdfs:Property>
> <rdf:RDF>
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------
> 
> Please note that the property definition can be split into 
> two separate 
> definitions, thus
> the Java-classes can be serialized interdependently (this is 
> actually the 
> approach used in Protege).
> 
>   <rdfs:Property rdf:ID="child">
>     <rdfutil:facets>
>      <rdfutil:facetResource>
>       <rdfutil:domain rdf:resource="#Node"/>
>       <rdfutil:range rdf:resource="#Node"/>
>      </rdfutil:facetResource>
>     </rdfutil:facets>
>   </rdfs:Property>
> 
> 
> 
>   <rdfs:Property rdf:ID="child">
>     <rdfutil:facets>
>      <rdfutil:facetResource>
>       <rdfutil:domain rdf:resource="#Person"/>
>       <rdfutil:range rdf:resource="#Person"/>
>      </rdfutil:facetResource>
>     </rdfutil:facets>
>   </rdfs:Property>
> 
> 
> Ciao,
> 
>          Stefan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >Where serialzed instances should look like
> >
> ><rdf xmlns:rdf="..."
> >      xmlns="..."
> >
> >   <Person rdf:about="....">
> >      <name>Harry Hacker</name>
> >      <child rdf:"ressurce="...."/>
> >   </Person>
> >
> >   <Node rdf:about="....">
> >      <content rdf:ressource="..."/>
> >      <child rdf:ressource="..."/>
> >   </Node>
> ></rdf>
> >
> >
> >AFAIK, that is not possible at all because in RDF the domain
> >of a property is not part of the property
> >name (in contrast to OOPL).
> >
> >So I could add the class name to the property name manually,
> >but renaming child to Person-child and Node-child would
> >look ugly in the RDF code and not meet the spirit of
> >OOP. I could also use the RDF syntax for object
> >serialization but ignore RDF schema.
> >
> >Does anybody have a good suggestions?
> >
> >Is there any special reason why the domain name is not part
> >of the property name in RDF schema like in standard OOP?
> >Or did I misread the specs? Is object serialization a
> >relevant application of RDF?
> >
> >Best regards
> >
> >Stefan
> >
> >
> >--
> >Stefan Haustein
> >University of Dortmund
> >Computer Science VIII
> >www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 1 March 2000 05:47:07 UTC