org.semanticweb.owl.model
Interface OWLImportsDeclaration

All Superinterfaces:

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

All Known Implementing Classes:

OWLImportsDeclarationImpl

public interface OWLImportsDeclaration
extends OWLAxiom

Author: Matthew Horridge
The University Of Manchester
Bio-Health Informatics Group Date: 25-Oct-2006 A special kind of axiom that annotates an ontology to describe the ontologies that it imports.

Method Summary

java.net.URI	getImportedOntologyURI() A convenience method that gets the value of the annotation as a URI.
OWLOntology	getSubject() Gets the ontology that is the subject of this imports axiom.

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

accept, accept, getAnnotationAxioms, getAxiomType, getReferencedEntities, isLogicalAxiom

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

accept, accept, getSignature

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Method Detail

getSubject

OWLOntology getSubject()

Gets the ontology that is the subject of this imports axiom.

getImportedOntologyURI

java.net.URI getImportedOntologyURI()

A convenience method that gets the value of the annotation as a URI.

Returns:

The URI of the ontology that is imported