Re: No rdfs:range specified for owl:hasValue ... an error?

"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" wrote:
> 
> > <rdf:Property rdf:ID="hasValue">
> >      <rdfs:label>hasValue</rdfs:label>
> >     <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Restriction"/>
> > </rdf:Property>
> >
> > Note that there is no rdfs:range specified.  Is that a mistake?  The
> > other properties - allValuesFrom,  someValuesFrom, etc - do have an
> > rdfs:range specified, so it leads me to believe that it is a 
> > mistake. /Roger
> 
> Not having a specified range for a property is definitely not a 
> mistake. There is absolutely no requirement that a property have a 
> range or a domain.

Sorry, I didn't express myself very well.  Of course I realize that it
is okay to not specify a range.  All I was trying to point out was that
the definition of hasValue is inconsistent with the others of its ilk -
allValuesFrom,  someValuesFrom, etc - because they specify a range
whereas hasValue doesn't.  I found that rather odd, and figured that it
was either an oversight, or there was a good reason why no range was
specified.  Which is it?  /Roger

Received on Monday, 10 March 2003 07:52:11 UTC