org.semanticweb.owlapi.model
Interface OWLSubPropertyChainOfAxiom

All Superinterfaces:

java.lang.Comparable<OWLObject>, OWLAxiom, OWLLogicalAxiom, OWLObject, OWLObjectPropertyAxiom, OWLPropertyAxiom

All Known Implementing Classes:

OWLSubPropertyChainAxiomImpl

public interface OWLSubPropertyChainOfAxiom
extends OWLObjectPropertyAxiom

Author: Matthew Horridge
The University Of Manchester
Bio-Health Informatics Group
Date: 22-Nov-2006

Represents a SubObjectPropertyOf axiom in the OWL 2 Specification where the subproperty is a chain of properties. Note that this axiom type is not explicit in the OWL 2 specification, but it is included in the OWL API as a convenience to the programmer.

Method Summary

OWLSubPropertyChainOfAxiom	getAxiomWithoutAnnotations() Gets an axiom that is structurally equivalent to this axiom without annotations.
java.util.List<OWLObjectPropertyExpression>	getPropertyChain() Gets the chain of properties that represents the subproperty in this axiom.
OWLObjectPropertyExpression	getSuperProperty() Gets the super property of this axiom
boolean	isEncodingOfTransitiveProperty() Determines if this axiom is of the form: P o P -> P, which is an encoding of Transitive(P)

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

getPropertyChain

java.util.List<OWLObjectPropertyExpression> getPropertyChain()

Gets the chain of properties that represents the subproperty in this axiom.

Returns:

A list of object property expressions that represents the chain of properties that represent the subproperty in this axiom.

getSuperProperty

OWLObjectPropertyExpression getSuperProperty()

Gets the super property of this axiom

Returns:

The property expression that represents the superproperty in this expression.

isEncodingOfTransitiveProperty

boolean isEncodingOfTransitiveProperty()

Determines if this axiom is of the form: P o P -> P, which is an encoding of Transitive(P)

Returns:

true if this encodes that the super property is transitive, otherwise false.

getAxiomWithoutAnnotations

OWLSubPropertyChainOfAxiom 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