org.semanticweb.owlapi.model

Interface OWLSubPropertyChainOfAxiom

All Superinterfaces:

Comparable<OWLObject>, OWLAxiom, OWLLogicalAxiom, OWLObject, OWLObjectPropertyAxiom, OWLPropertyAxiom, Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

OWLSubPropertyChainAxiomImpl

public interface OWLSubPropertyChainOfAxiom
extends OWLObjectPropertyAxiom

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.

Author:

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

Property Summary

Properties

Type	Property and Description
boolean	isEncodingOfTransitive Determines if this axiom is of the form: P o P -> P, which is an encoding of Transitive(P).

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
OWLSubPropertyChainOfAxiom	getAxiomWithoutAnnotations() Gets an axiom that is structurally equivalent to this axiom without annotations.
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, isAnnotationAxiom, isLogicalAxiom, isOfType, isOfType

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

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

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Property Detail

isEncodingOfTransitive

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.

Method Detail

getPropertyChain

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