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   Re: [xml-dev] semantics in schema (xsd)

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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/




 

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