[Person-ontology] first contributions - is the Higgins top-level useful?

[Pat Hayes]

>  Philippe Martin <phmartin at phmartin.info>:
>For instance, I currently do not understand why 35 XSD classes
>have been "duplicated" into 35 higgins classes and 35 higgins
>properties; one example, higgins#float, which has for signature
>(in the FL notation):  higgins#float (higgins#Float, xsd#float).
>Why not directly using the 35 XSD classes?

I agree. I don't see the purpose of this either. If it was done in 
order to allow 'contextual' modifications of the XSD suite, I would 
strongly suggest that to allow this is bad practice in the current 
state of the SWeb art. People must try to use existing standards 
where at all possible, rather than tweak or modify them to achieve 
local perfection.

Pat Hayes


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