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/*
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package org.semanticweb.owlapi.model;
/**
 * Author: Matthew Horridge

 * The University Of Manchester

 * Bio-Health Informatics Group
 * Date: 24-Oct-2006
 * 
 * Represents a DataRange in the OWL 2 Specification.
 * 
 * A high level interface which represents a data range.  Example of
 * data ranges are datatypes (e.g. int, float, double, string, ...),
 * complements of data ranges (e.g. not(int)), data enumerations (data oneOfs),
 * datatype restrictions (e.g. int > 3).
 */
public interface OWLDataRange extends OWLObject, OWLPropertyRange, SWRLPredicate {

    /**
     * Determines if this data range is a datatype (int, float, ...)
     *
     * @return true if this datarange is a datatype, or
     *         false if it is not a datatype and is some other
     *         data range such as a data range restriction, data oneOf or
     *         data complementOf.
     */
    boolean isDatatype();


    /**
     * Determines if this data range is the top data type.
     *
     * @return true if this data range is the top datatype otherwise
     *         false
     */
    boolean isTopDatatype();

    /**
     * If this data range is a datatype then this method may be used to obtain it as a datatype (rather than
     * using an explicit cast).
     * @return This data range as an {@link org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLDatatype}
     */
    OWLDatatype asOWLDatatype();

    /**
     * Gets the type of this data range
     * @return The data range type
     */
    DataRangeType getDataRangeType();
    @SuppressWarnings("javadoc")
    void accept(OWLDataVisitor visitor);
    @SuppressWarnings("javadoc")
     O accept(OWLDataVisitorEx visitor);
    @SuppressWarnings("javadoc")
    void accept(OWLDataRangeVisitor visitor);
    @SuppressWarnings("javadoc")
     O accept(OWLDataRangeVisitorEx visitor);
}