Questions About DAML+OIL Restrictions

• From: Richard Fikes <fikes@KSL.Stanford.EDU>
• Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:04:14 -0700
• To: www-rdf-logic <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <3ADD204E.9BFC0386@ksl.stanford.edu>

Here are some other questions about the DAML+OIL language spec on which
I would like clarification:

Can a restriction have more than one value for property "onProperty?  If
not, is that constraint stated anywhere in the spec?

Can a restriction have values for more than one of the properties
"toClass", "hasClass", "hasValue", "hasClassQ", "minCardinality", ...,
"minCardinalityQ"?  That is, can a single restriction state multiple
constraints?

Is it the case that the following restriction:

(type R Restriction)
(onProperty R P)
(hasClass R C)

is logically equivalent to the following restriction:

(type R1 Restriction)
(onProperty R1 P)
(hasClassQ R1 C)
(minCardinalityQ R1 1)

If so, what is the rationale for having "hasClass" in the language?

Richard

Received on Wednesday, 18 April 2001 01:04:18 UTC