defn">rdf:about</span> attribute is left empty.</p>

<h3><a id="sectionB3.2">RDF and OWL Deserialization</a></h3>

<p class="bodytext">Both property specialization and property characteristics
(other than <span class="xmldefn">owl:FunctionalProperty</span>) are implemented by
means of <span class="section"><a
href="reasoner.html#section9a">automatically-generated rules</a></span>.</p>

<p class="bodytext"><span class="xmldefn">owl:someValuesFrom</span> is treated as a
kind of property specialization: a rule