org.semanticweb.owlapi.model
Interface OWLDeclarationAxiom

All Superinterfaces:

java.lang.Comparable<OWLObject>, OWLAxiom, OWLObject

All Known Implementing Classes:

OWLDeclarationAxiomImpl

public interface OWLDeclarationAxiom
extends OWLAxiom

Author: Matthew Horridge
The University Of Manchester
Bio-Health Informatics Group Date: 24-Oct-2006

Represents a Declaration in the OWL 2 Specification.

A declaration axiom declares an entity in an ontology. It doesn't affect the logical meaning of the ontology.

Method Summary

OWLDeclarationAxiom	getAxiomWithoutAnnotations() Gets an axiom that is structurally equivalent to this axiom without annotations.
OWLEntity	getEntity() Gets the entity that this axiom declares.

Methods inherited from interface org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLAxiom

accept, accept, equalsIgnoreAnnotations, getAnnotatedAxiom, getAnnotations, getAnnotations, getAxiomType, getNNF, isAnnotated, isLogicalAxiom, isOfType, isOfType

Methods inherited from interface org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLObject

accept, accept, getClassesInSignature, getDataPropertiesInSignature, getDatatypesInSignature, getIndividualsInSignature, getNestedClassExpressions, getObjectPropertiesInSignature, getSignature, isBottomEntity, isTopEntity

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Method Detail

getEntity

OWLEntity getEntity()

Gets the entity that this axiom declares.

Returns:

The entity that is declared by this axiom.

getAxiomWithoutAnnotations

OWLDeclarationAxiom getAxiomWithoutAnnotations()

Description copied from interface: OWLAxiom

Gets an axiom that is structurally equivalent to this axiom without annotations. This essentially returns a version of this axiom stripped of any annotations

Specified by:

getAxiomWithoutAnnotations in interface OWLAxiom

Returns:

The annotationless version of this axiom