possible peculiarity with empty datatypes from Peter F. Patel-Schneider on 2003-06-18 (www-rdf-comments@w3.org from April to June 2003)

From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:28:00 -0400 (EDT)
To: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
Message-Id: <20030618.152800.125336419.pfps@research.bell-labs.com>

Hi:

A datatype, d, with an empty value space may end up in an unusual state
because it has no instances, and thus would not trigger any 
	x rdf:type d
semantic conditions (assuming that such semantic conditions are included in
RDFS). 

Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Bell Labs Research
Lucent Technologies

Received on Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:28:11 UTC