Re: Guide: draft of Oct 31

• From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
• Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 16:30:28 -0500 (EST)
• To: michael.smith@eds.com
• Cc: www-webont-wg@w3.org
• Message-Id: <20021031.163028.45710036.pfps@research.bell-labs.com>

From: "Smith, Michael K" <michael.smith@eds.com>
Subject: RE: Guide: draft of Oct 31
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:23:46 -0600

> Thanks, Peter.
> 
> I sent out the wine.owl and food.owl ontologies in an earlier message.
> See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Oct/0333.html
> 
> The RDF validator seemed to like them.  The following goes through 
> just fine.
> 
> <rdf:RDF
>   xmlns     = "http://www.example.org/wine.owl#"
>   xmlns:owl = "http://www.w3.org/@@/owl#"
>   xmlns:rdf = "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
>   xmlns:rdfs= "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#">
> 
>   <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="locatedIn">
>     <owl:TransitiveProperty />
>     <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/@@/owl#Thing" />
>     <rdfs:range rdf:resource="#Region" />
>   </owl:ObjectProperty>
> 
> </rdf:RDF>
> 
> But as I have been saying for some time, that's no guarantee 
> that you have syntactically correct OWL.
> 
> - Mike

I stand by my contention that the above is syntactically illegal RDF.  It
definitely does not have the correct OWL interpretation, as
owl:TransitiveProperty is used as property.  (Unless I am totally confused
about RDF - the above appears to me to break RDF striping.)

peter

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