- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: 16 Jun 2003 16:17:34 -0500
- To: Jeff Heflin <heflin@cse.lehigh.edu>
- Cc: Guus Schreiber <schreiber@cs.vu.nl>, Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>, WebOnt <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 13:33, Jeff Heflin wrote: > Hi Dan, > > The text you want stricken is from the currently published Last Call > Working Draft, not from my proposed response. My proposal was to change > it to: > > > "Note that although owl:imports and namespace declarations may appear > > redundant, they actually serve very different purposes. Namespace > > declarations simply set up a shorthand for referring to identifiers. > > They do not implicitly include the meaning of documents located at > the > > URI (although some applications may choose to process these documents > in > > addition to the original document). On the other hand, owl:imports > does > > not provide any shorthand notation for referring to the identifiers > from > > the imported document. Therefore, it is common to have a > corresponding > > namespace declaration for any ontology that is imported." > > Note that this makes it clear that other applications, such as the ones > you have built, are free to process the namespace documents. I hope this > text is more acceptable to you. Yes, that's quite nice. Sorry to stir things up unnecessarily. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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