Re: question about OWL-S and XML Schema version

Dear all,

I have looked at the schema at 
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes.xsd and all it does is take 
data types from the http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema namespace and put 
them in the http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes namespace. So the 
correct namespace would still be http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.
It makes no sense for a reasoning engine to retrieve a schema for 
XMLSchema. The schema should be expressed in another schema language and 
we can keep on going.
The reasoning engine should have built-in support for XMLSchema. This is 
what is assumed when the http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema is used. A 
reasoning engine for daml is also assumed to have the knowledge to cope 
with daml. It cannot depend on the retrieval of a schema for daml.

Best,

Jos de Bruijn

Terry R. Payne wrote:

>Dave,
>	I just looked at this (I didn't check with my recent spate of
>changes) and indeed there could be a problem, specifically as this URL
>refers to just the html of a doc.
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>A little digging reveals that the schema itself is in [1]
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>[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes.xsd
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>But the issue is that of what it means to resolve a URL and a namespace.
>Many people (including myself) work on the (broken) assumption that URLs
>can be resolved and the information retrieved by a simple http request.
>It's not totally valid, but works for now.
>
>Looking at the schema, it does define the namespace to be
>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema, but this presupposes that your
>reasoning engine has already retrieved the schema definition in [1] that
>defines this namespace... Ah, but on closer inspection, the
>targetNamespace defined in [1] is:
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>[2] http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes
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>i.e. the schema URL minus the extension!
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>I'm never sure what the exact difference of default namespace and target
>namespace is, so unless anyone can clarify off the top of their head,
>I'll investigate.
>
>I suspect that we should probably change the namespace in the daml-s
>docs to either [1] or [2]...
>
>	Terry
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>_______________________________________________________________________
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: www-ws-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-request@w3.org] On Behalf
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>Of
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>>David Martin
>>Sent: 16 July 2003 00:11
>>To: Grit Denker
>>Cc: www-ws@w3.org
>>Subject: question about OWL-S and XML Schema version
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>>[Note: the original message wasn't posted on www-ws.]
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>>Grit Denker wrote:
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>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>we tried to load the latest version of Process.daml into our
>>>DAML+OIL-plugin for Protege and ran into
>>>
>>><daml:DatatypeProperty rdf:ID="invocable">
>>> <rdfs:comment>Invocable is a flag that tells whether the
>>>CompositeProcess
>>>bottoms out in atomic processes. (If so, it is
>>>"invocable".)</rdfs:comment>
>>> <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#CompositeProcess" />
>>> <rdfs:range rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#boolean"
>>>      
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>/>
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>>></daml:DatatypeProperty>
>>>
>>>The referenced range does not (yet) seem to be fully defined (the web
>>>page hardly contains any information yet).
>>>Is this a bug or a reference to upcoming XMLSchema?
>>>Shouldn't the range resource be
>>>http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema#boolean?
>>>That would at least have substantial definitions.
>>>
>>>Could somebody please clarify this for me? We would like to know
>>>whether we need to extend our plugin.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Hi Grit -
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>>With the latest release (0.9) of DAML-S/OWL-S, we changed the
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>XMLSchema
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>>namespace to
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>>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
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>>as you have noticed.
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>>This was done at the suggestion of a knowledgable user who said it
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>would
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>>make life much easier for him, and also because it seemed obvious that
>>we should employ the most recent completed release.
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>>I'm not really an expert on XML Schema, but I believe this namespace
>>does represent the most recent completed release.  If that's not
>>correct, someone please respond with the correct info.
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>>I don't know why the document at http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema_ _
>>is so impoverished.  But it is my impression that that's the correct
>>namespace to use.  Take a look at the document here:
>>    http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/datatypes.html
>>for better documentation of the datatypes.  Note that this document
>>references the above namespace.
>>
>>Finally, I must admit I never considered whether this change would
>>affect the work on the plugin.  The only resulting change we made in
>>DAML-S/OWL-S files was this:
>>   changing uriReference to anyURI.
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>>Regards,
>>David
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