From: Dan Connolly ([email protected])
Date: 10/09/00
[Is there any particular reason this comment was sent to the project-confidential forum?] York Sure wrote: > > Hi, > > I have questions regarding your example ontololgy in daml: > > <rdf:RDF > xmlns:rdf ="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" > xmlns ="http://www.daml.org/2000/10/daml-ont#" > xmlns:daml="http://www.daml.org/2000/10/daml-ont#" > > > > what do you mean by: > > xmlns ="http://www.daml.org/2000/10/daml-ont#" >From the documentation: [[[ The second declaration says that in this document, unprefixed element names should be understood as referring to things drawn from the namespace called http://www.daml.org/2000/10/daml-ont#. ]]] -- Annotated DAML Ontology Markup http://www.daml.org/2000/10/daml-walkthru#Setting Sat, 07 Oct 2000 02:35:23 GMT See also the suggested reading on namespaces: XML Namespaces by Example by Tim Bray Jan. 19, 1999 in XML.com Namespace Myths Exploded by Ronald Bourret Mar. 8, 2000 in XML.com -- http://www.daml.org/2000/10/daml-walkthru#References > And another question: why don't you reference the rdfs-namespace? > For example: > > xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/PR-rdf-schema-19990303#" It does, indirectly: daml-ex imports daml-ont, and daml-ont imports RDFS. daml:equivalentTo is used to make daml:Class another name for rdfs:Class and such. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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