- From: Drew McDermott <drew.mcdermott@yale.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:50:03 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> [Pater Patel-Schneider]
> What you appear to be needing is some way to talk about strings as
> individuals, which is not allowed in OWL DL.
Suppose you introduced a class Literal (assuming that's not a reserved
word) with a datatype property litdefn (cardinality 1) used thus:
<Literal>
<litdefn rdf:type="&xsd;integer">42</litdefn>
</Literal>
Of course, OWL and RDF wouldn't assign any special meaning to these
constructs, but couldn't they be used to introduce individuals as
stand-ins for literals in many cases?
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-- Drew McDermott
Yale University CS Dept.
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