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• To: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@o...>
• Subject: Re: Interesting nodes are anonymous, was: Re: Meta-somethingorother (was the semantic web mega-permathread thing)
• From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@o...>
• Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:30:08 -0400
• Cc: martind@n..., "'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <64D667AE-BCAE-11D8-BADE-000A95BA5A2C@o...>
• References: <000401c45096$fa882780$c801a8c0@DIDIERHOME> <64D667AE-BCAE-11D8-BADE-000A95BA5A2C@o...>

If I wasn;t clear enough about this example: An ontology aware system 
doesn't care at all about these two forms, they are identical as far as 
it is concerned -- even if we don't explicitly label the <object> as a 
<Person> the system knows that we are dealing with a <Person> because 
only people have <SSNs>

This is where ontologies allow you to be *more flexible* in how data is 
exchanged -- as long as the system has the knowledge to figure it out 
it will..

>
> Didier I want to discuss the differences between my example and yours 
> a bit more:
>
> I started with:
>
> <Person xmlns="http://example.org/ex">
> 	<SSN rdf:resource="uuid:ssn:1112223344"/>
> 	<hasIncomeOf>1000000</hasIncomeOf>
> 	<ownsHouse>
> 		<House>
> 			<hasAddress>1234 West Ridge Road</hasAddress>
> 		</House>
> 	</ownsHouse>
> </Person>
>
> and Didier then asked about (simplified):
>
>
> <object xmlns="http://example.org/ex">
> 	<SSN rdf:resource="uuid:ssn:1112223344"/>
> 	<hasIncomeOf>1000000</hasIncomeOf>
> 	<ownsHouse>
> 		<House>
> 			<hasAddress>1234 West Ridge Road</hasAddress>
> 		</House>
> 	</ownsHouse>
> </object>
>
>
>
Jonathan

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