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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
	 * @return the output of the visitor
	 */
	public  O accept(ElkAnnotationAxiomVisitor visitor);
}