Re: proposal to close Issue 5.8 Datatypes

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>5/ Cardinality restrictions in the exchange syntax for OWL will use typed
>    literals, as in
>              _:x rdf:type owl:Restriction .
>              _:x owl:onProperty ex:foo .
>              _:x owl:cardinality "5"^^xsd:decimal .

Peter-
  you were strong on the phone today with this, where some people 
seemed to think going with cardinality as numerals was better for 
various reasons.  I actually have no idea which is better, but the 
numerals one would be closer to D+O (i.e. not require recoding all 
the cardinality statements and rewriting all the parsers).  Can you 
outline why you felt so strongly about this so the rest of us can 
understand the argument?
  thanks
  Jim H.
p.s. Also, in your example why do you propose decimal rather than 
integer for cardinality (or positive integer)? Is this important? 
Would we insist is is any typed literal, or only the correct ones for 
cardinalities?
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Received on Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:40:48 UTC