[Activerdf] Class hierarchy and Ruby class realizations

Eyal Oren eyal.oren at deri.org
Tue Apr 24 17:58:56 IST 2007


On 04/23/07/04/07 15:58 -0000, Harshal Ganpatrao Hayatnagarkar wrote:
>
>The reason why I derived 'test:Person' from 'rdfs:Class' is that I want to 
>help percolate the instantiation behaviour of 'rdfs:Class' to the 
>'test:Person', 'test:Project_Manager'. However, I guess that existing 
>implementation of 'ActiveRDF' does not support this kind of hierarchy of 
>classes to be generated, just looking at inheritance.

ActiveRDF relies on the datastore for RDFS subclass reasoning. If you want 
subclass reasoning you need to use a store that does so, such as Sesame or 
Jena.

With respect to your question, I'm not sure what you want to happen here.  
What does "percolate the instantiation behaviour" mean exactly?

 -eyal


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