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package org.semanticweb.elk.owl.interfaces;

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

/**
 * Corresponds to the
 * 
 * complement of a data range in the OWL 2 specification.
 * 
 * @author Markus Kroetzsch
 */
public interface ElkDataComplementOf extends ElkDataRange {

	/**
	 * Get the data range that this expression refers to.
	 * 
	 * @return data range
	 */
	public ElkDataRange getDataRange();

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

	/**
	 * A factory for creating instances
	 * 
	 * @author Yevgeny Kazakov
	 *
	 */
	interface Factory {

		/**
		 * Create an {@link ElkDataComplementOf}.
		 * 
		 * @param range
		 *            the {@link ElkDataRange} for which the object should be
		 *            created
		 * @return an {@link ElkDataComplementOf} corresponding to the input
		 */
		public ElkDataComplementOf getDataComplementOf(ElkDataRange range);

	}

}