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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, John Cowan wrote: > That is a deliberate consequence of the property-centric nature of > RDFS. Properties are global and immutable, whereas classes are > open-ended: anyone can add properties to your classes, even > third-party properties, provided they respect the range of those > properties. So, what is a class apart from the properties that "range" it? Can a class be defined without reference to properties at all (i.e. what *else* is it)? Either a huge question is being begged, or what are being called "properties" might just be better off modelled as independent links (and thus actually *classes* in their own right.) I think "property-centric" is a terminological mistake of some kind. (Though, of what kind, I'm not sure yet:)) Arjun *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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