OWLOntoElement.java

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package ch.uzh.ifi.attempto.acewiki.owl;

import org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.IRI;
import org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLDeclarationAxiom;
import org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLLogicalEntity;

/**
 * This interface represents an ontology element that has a representation in OWL.
 * 
 * @author Tobias Kuhn
 */
public interface OWLOntoElement {

	/**
	 * Returns the IRI of the ontology element. This IRI is a concatenation of the
	 * ontology IRI and the IRI suffix of the ontology element.
	 * 
	 * @return The IRI.
	 */
	public abstract IRI getIRI();

	/**
	 * This method returns an OWL object for the given ontology element.
	 * 
	 * @return An OWL object.
	 */
	public abstract OWLLogicalEntity getOWLRepresentation();

	/**
	 * This method returns an OWL axiom that declares the given ontology element.
	 * 
	 * @return An OWL declaration axiom.
	 */
	public abstract OWLDeclarationAxiom getOWLDeclaration();

}