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Irene Polikoff wrote:
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> 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@w3.org]
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 9:46 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] 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
>
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