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   Re: [xml-dev] Beyond Ontologies

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Bob Foster scripsit:

> But relationships do change all the time. <#Simon> :sonOf_:1 is as good an
> example as any. I assume the 1 is intended to be the cardinality, so the
> relationship might be better named sonOfFather. 

No, no.  <#Simon> :sonOf _:1 (note that you dropped a space) uses _:1 as
a label for an anonymous node, the equivalent of an existentially quantified
variable.  In plain English, it says "Simon is the son of someone."

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