Proposed response to "imports error in App. B of OWL Language Reference 31 March 2003"

• From: Mike Dean <mdean@bbn.com>
• Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 11:09:26 -0700
• To: www-webont-wg@w3.org
• Message-Id: <200305111809.LAA16982@escher.SD.BBN.COM>

Below is a proposed response to [1].

	Mike

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webont-comments/2003May/0073.html

Dick,

Thanks for your feedback on the OWL Reference.

> The xmlns URI for rdfs ends with "#",
> but the imports URI for rdfs does not.
>
> Shouldn't they be the same?

No.  Recall that the xmlns URI is a prefix preprended to a
local name to form the URI of a Resource within the
namespace (document), while owl:imports refers to the
namespace (document) itself.

	Mike

Received on Sunday, 11 May 2003 14:09:34 UTC