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Chiusano Joseph wrote:
>
> 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)? :)
Oh - on second thought, I take that back (gosh this gets complicated) :)
> 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
> >
> > --
> > Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
> > http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
> >
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