Re: TEST: rdf compatibility

At 10:47 +0100 2/28/03, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
>I have added two tests reflecting the chairs ruling on this issue (and
>similarly reflecting that ruling filed them under issue 5.2)
>
>http://www.w3.org/2002/03owlt/editors-draft/snapshot#I5.2-010
>http://www.w3.org/2002/03owlt/editors-draft/snapshot#I5.2-011
>
>Out of order comment:
>
>These tests indicate that permitting the RDF container vocabulary causes no
>additional difficulties for OWL Lite reasoners.
>
>Moreover, for systems intending to support both RDF and OWL Lite (such as
>Jena), these tests require mechanisms that switch off RDF container support
>for OWL Lite.
>
>Further, there is an on-going cost of user confusion and user support when
>users try and migrate RDF files including containers to OWL Lite.
>
>Jeremy

Jeremy - as we've determined in some offline discussion, there's some 
disagreement about exactly what the ruling means and how it will be 
reflected in S&AS and Test - perhaps we should hold off on this one 
until we get that all resolved?
  -JH


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