- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 17:30:30 -0000
- To: <tarod@softhome.net>
- Cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> I don't know, but it will be a daml solution not a rdf > solution, because there is no rdf problem with domains, > at least, in my opinion. Pardon me? I presume that by "rdf solution" you in fact mean "RDF Schema". RDF Schema is a vocabularly built on top of the RDF model with which one can create new languages, by defining what goes where. DAML is very similar to this, except it's a bit (read: a lot) more powerful, and it was defined by DARPA, rather than W3C. Clearly, people take domains and ranges to be conjuntive; it is useful to do so, and the content that you originally cited gives a good reason (from TimBL) as to why they should be taken conjuntively, with agreement by whoever was responding. I have further demonstrated that by using DAML, you can still create unions of classes, and use them as domains or ranges. The only difference in the two approaches is that now, when you want to declare constraints as intersections, you end up with less triples than if you wanted to do the same using unions. But so what? :-) -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . :Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .
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