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package org.semanticweb.elk.owl.interfaces;

import org.semanticweb.elk.owl.visitors.ElkAnnotationAxiomVisitor;

/**
 * Corresponds to an
 * Annotation
 * Axiom in the OWL 2 specification. Annotation axioms do not have any
 * logical meaning and can be safely ignored during reasoning. A (dummy)
 * implementation of annotation axioms is required to handle them more
 * gracefully during loading of OWL 2 ontologies.
 * 
 * @author "Yevgeny Kazakov"
 * 
 */
public interface ElkAnnotationAxiom extends ElkAxiom {

	/**
	 * Accept an {@link ElkAnnotationAxiomVisitor}.
	 * 
	 * @param visitor
	 *            the visitor that can work with this axiom type
	 * @param 
	 *            the type of the output of the visitor
	 * @return the output of the visitor
	 */
	public  O accept(ElkAnnotationAxiomVisitor visitor);

	/**
	 * A factory for creating instances
	 * 
	 * @author Yevgeny Kazakov
	 *
	 */
	interface Factory extends ElkAnnotationAssertionAxiom.Factory,
			ElkAnnotationPropertyDomainAxiom.Factory,
			ElkAnnotationPropertyRangeAxiom.Factory,
			ElkSubAnnotationPropertyOfAxiom.Factory {

		// combined interface

	}

}




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