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General Interfaces for working with OWL objects
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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
}
}