Re: Domain/Range: conjuntion or disjuntion??

>   We don't gain anything with the conjuntion view but we lose some
> expresivity.
>   
>   Thanks,
>         Marc

Marc,

One of the reason for changing RDF Schema on this issue is that using
the conjunction view can lead to inconsistencies when combined with
multiple inheritance. A small document that we wrote about this in
April of this year can be found at:

http://sesame.aidministrator.nl/doc/rdf-interpretation.html

Chapter 4 is about the rdfs:domain and rdfs:range properties.

I hope this will convince you that disjuction is the way to go, even
though it has some drawback from a modelers point-of-view.

Cheers,

Arjohn

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Received on Wednesday, 21 November 2001 05:32:15 UTC