- From: Deborah McGuinness <dlm@ksl.stanford.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:12:56 -0700
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- CC: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
A direct pointer to (standard) OIL syntax is available at:
http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil/syntax/Standard-OIL/
The presentation syntax that we use in our white paper on the site:
http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil/downl/oil-whitepaper.pdf
also provides reasonable readability in my opinion for papers.
Deborah McGuinness
Sandro Hawke wrote:
> (... speaking of alternatives to the RDF/XML syntax ...)
>
> Has anyone done work on making a more pleasant ontology syntax for
> DAML+OIL [1] ?
>
> Obviously there are lots of personal preferences. I'm imagining
> something vaguely Java-like:
>
> Class Animal extends LivingThing, has {
> Animal mother;
> Animal father;
> }
>
> with some clever syntax for cardinality and most of the extra
> expressiveness of DAML+OIL in some boolean expression constraint
> syntax.
>
> -- sandro
>
> [1] http://www.daml.org/language/
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