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Actually I'm not sure what I'm saying. :) Perhaps that's why I don't have a wife yet. ;) (hehe) Irene Polikoff wrote: > > Well, this seem to go back to the question of whether "husband" should > be treated as a class - a subclass of males or as a relationship (object > property). > > In this example husband is treated as a relationship between 2 concepts > (classes) - male and female. Are you saying that it would be better to > have "husband" as a class? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chiusano Joseph [mailto:chiusano_joseph@b...] > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 11:02 AM > To: Irene Polikoff > Cc: 'Liam Quin'; xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: semantics in schema (xsd) > > Irene Polikoff wrote: > [snip] > > What you are bringing up is that in some countries a husband may be > > also a male. > > Sorry to be picky, but wouldn't this be in all countries (a "husband" is > never female)? :) > > Kind Regards, > Joe Chiusano > Booz | Allen | Hamilton > Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World > > One way to handle it is to create a subclass of homosexual males > > and declare that homosexual males may also have husbands. In addition, > > > one could put a restriction saying that this is only possible in a > > certain subclass of countries (countries that allow homosexual > > marriages). > > > > This is, however, going quite beyond the scope of the original > > example. > > > > Regards, > > > > Irene > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Liam Quin [mailto:liam@w...] > > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 9:46 AM > > To: xml-dev@l... > > Subject: Re: semantics in schema (xsd) > > > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 08:52:31AM -0500, Irene Polikoff wrote: > > > Yes, modeling wife as a subclass of female may not be the right > > > thing to do. Another option in either RDF or OWL is for wife or > > > husband to be modeled as a property of male/female. It could then be > > > > said (using, > > > > > for example, domain - range restrictions of RDF) that wife's must be > > > > females and husband's must be males. > > > > But I am male, and my husband (yes, legally here in Canada) is male. > > > > When you try to enshrine legislation in software, you have to be > > willing to make changes ;-) > > > > Liam > > > > -- > > Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > > http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php>
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