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/**
* @author Markus Kroetzsch, Aug 8, 2011
*/
package org.semanticweb.elk.owl.interfaces;
import java.util.List;
import org.semanticweb.elk.owl.visitors.ElkObjectUnionOfVisitor;
/**
* Corresponds to a
*
* Union of Class Expressions in the OWL 2 specification.
*
* @author Markus Kroetzsch
*/
public interface ElkObjectUnionOf extends ElkClassExpression {
/**
* Get the list of class expressions that this expression refers to. The
* order of class expressions does not affect the semantics but it is
* relevant to the syntax of OWL.
*
* @return list of class expressions
*/
public List getClassExpressions();
/**
* Accept an {@link ElkObjectUnionOfVisitor}.
*
* @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 O accept(ElkObjectUnionOfVisitor visitor);
/**
* A factory for creating instances
*
* @author Yevgeny Kazakov
*
*/
interface Factory {
/**
* Create an {@link ElkObjectUnionOf}.
*
* @param first
* the first {@link ElkClassExpression} of the union for
* which the object should be created
* @param second
* the second {@link ElkClassExpression} of the union for
* which the object should be created
* @param other
* other {@link ElkClassExpression}s of the union for which
* the object should be created
* @return an {@link ElkObjectUnionOf} corresponding to the input
*/
public ElkObjectUnionOf getObjectUnionOf(
ElkClassExpression first,
ElkClassExpression second,
ElkClassExpression... other);
/**
* Create an {@link ElkObjectUnionOf}.
*
* @param members
* the {@link ElkClassExpression}s for which the object
* should be created
* @return an {@link ElkObjectUnionOf} corresponding to the input
*/
public ElkObjectUnionOf getObjectUnionOf(
List members);
}
}