- From: Massimo Marchiori <massimo@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 16:15:07 +0100
- To: "Jeff Heflin" <heflin@cse.lehigh.edu>, "Jim Hendler" <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Cc: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
> Jim (and others) > > Those of you who read my discussion with Tim should realize that the > solution he proposed was that if a document mentions a term from a > namespace, that the statements from that namespace should be merged with > the document when processing (essentially this an implict imports). I > admitted that in the example I described, this would work (but only as a > workaround, it would force people to design ontologies in a certain way > to take advanatage of this behavior). Note, though to have any semantic > interoperability, this behavior would have to be stated as <em>part of > our semantics.<em> If we chose to do this, then it would also have the > side effect that we would then not be able to add on the ability to > "import parts of ontologies" because by default, simply mentioning a > term from an ontology implicitly imports the whole thing. While an easy and effective trick, I would be uncomfortable with Tim's solution. This has been already touched on in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Sep/0456.html -M
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