AnnotationProperty.java

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// Package
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package org.apache.jena.ontology;


// Imports
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import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.* ;


/**
 * <p>
 * Interface that represents the category of annotation properties in an ontology
 * language.  Annotation properties are distinguished in some languages (such as
 * OWL) - in order to maintain theoretical properties of the language, which depend
 * on clean separation of syntactic categories.  Annotation properties may not be
 * used in property expressions. There is no guarantee that a given language will
 * have any annotation properties.
 * </p>
 */
public interface AnnotationProperty
    extends OntProperty, Property
{
    // Constants
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    // External signature methods
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}