Re: Representing domain and/or range in OWL

Thanks for your Help. I did try what you have suggested, however the 
problem remians the same. It now throws up a warning sayi

>Use of this property implies that subject is of type
>
MyUnion (Subject is declared type

[http://www.temp/temp.owl#A])

I have started having doubts about this way of expressing the fact that a property can be applied to more than one domain class. Should this be taken as an issue with the validator or OWL itself?

Thanks,

Monika


Francesco Cannistrà wrote:

>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Francesco Cannistrà" <fracan@inwind.it>
>To: "Monika Solanki" <monika@dmu.ac.uk>
>Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:17 PM
>Subject: Re: Representing domain and/or range in OWL
>
>
>>>Use of this property implies that subject is of type
>>>
>>anon:ee4648:f5d1c5f1e1:-7fb0.  (Subject is declared type
>>
>>>[http://www.temp/temp.owl#A])
>>>
>>The anonimous resource is created when you declare the object of the
>>
>domain
>
>>property.
>> What you wrote is equivalent to:
>>
>>#P rdf#type owl#ObjectProperty
>>#anon rdf#type owl#Class
>>#P rdfs#domainowl #anon
>>#anon owl#unionOf #A
>>....
>>
>>I think that if you separe the class axiom from the property one
>>
>everything
>
>>would work fine.
>>i.e. :
>>
>><owl:Class rdf:ID="MyUnion">
>>     <owl:unionOf rdf:parseType="Collection">
>>                    <owl:Class rdf:about="#A"/>
>>                    <owl:Class rdf:about="#B"/>
>>                    <owl:Class rdf:about="#C"/>
>>     </owl:unionOf>
>></owl:Class>
>>
>><owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="P">
>>     <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#MyUnion" />
>></owl: ObjectProperty>
>>
>>However I'm not sure whether the behavior of the validator with your
>>original code is or is not to be considered correct.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Francesco.
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Monika Solanki
>>To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
>>Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 8:30 PM
>>Subject: Representing domain and/or range in OWL
>>
>>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I can represent the domain and/or range values of a Property P as follows:
>>
>><owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="P">
>> <rdfs:domain>
>>                <owl:Class>
>>                <owl:unionOf rdf:parseType="Collection">
>>                    <owl:Class rdf:about="#A"/>
>>                    <owl:Class rdf:about="#B"/>
>>                    <owl:Class rdf:about="#C"/>
>>                </owl:unionOf>
>>            </owl:Class>
>>    </rdfs:domain>
>></owl: ObjectProperty>
>>
>>Where Classes A , B and C have been defined elsewhere in the file. I
>>
>create
>
>>an instance of A, B or C and apply the property P to the instance.
>>
>>< A rdf : ID ="abc">
>>    <P>#xyz</P>
>></A>
>>
>>After this when I validate the Ontology, I get the following warning for
>>property P:
>>
>> Use of this property implies that subject is of type
>>anon:ee4648:f5d1c5f1e1:-7fb0.  (Subject is declared type
>>[http://www.temp/temp.owl#A])
>>
>>I am not sure if  anon:ee4648:f5d1c5f1e1:-7fb0 has been generated when the
>>about attribute for the class was parsed. Is this suppose to be treated as
>>
>a
>
>>serious error and is this representation of domain wrong? I am confused .
>>
>>Any help well apppreciated.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Monika
>>
>>p.s: I am using the bbn owl validator.
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>>Software Technology Research Laboratory
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>>The Gateway.
>>Leicester LE1 9BH, UK
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