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Here are responses to the remaing questions from your message:

> (2) The description of the elements of VD is a bit confusing, along with
> the supported datatype described in section 2. Section 2 says a list of XML
> Schema datatypes can be used in OWL, ..., *and* OWL also uses rdfs:Literal
> and can use rdf:XMLLiteral. Section 3.1 says VD contains the URI references
> of the built-in OWL datatypes and rdfs:Literal. Thus it seems that
> rdfs:Literal and rdf:XMLLiteral are not built-in OWL datatypes, and
> rdf:XMLLiteral is not in VD (but can be in D of a datatype theory). Is that
> right?

Sections 2 and 3 have been modified to make rdf:XMLLiteral a built-in OWL
datatype and rdfs:Literal not a built-in OWL datatype.  Data ranges now
include rdfs:Literal as a special case.  VD is then the built-in OWL
datatypes plus rdfs:Literal.  This has no real effect on the semantics.
You can see the revised document at 
	http://www-db.research.bell-labs.com/user/pfps/owl/

> (3) In the definition of datatype theory, it is not clear that what kinds
> of datatypes can be in the set D. Does it contain only the built-in OWL
> datatypes, or also their derived datatypes? If it can only consist of
> built-in OWL datatypes, the datatype theory is quite limited and seems to
> me not enough in many cases.

Datatype theories could include more than the built-in datatypes.  However,
there would have to be a private understanding as to the meaning of these
datatypes, as OWL has no mechanisms for providing such meaning.


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Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Bell Labs Research
Lucent Technologies

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