org.semanticweb.owl.model
Interface OWLClassAxiomVisitor

All Known Implementing Classes:

OWLClassAxiomVisitorAdapter

public interface OWLClassAxiomVisitor

A Visitor for OWL entities objects. See Design Patterns, Gamma et. al. p.331 for a detailed description of the Visitor pattern. If you wish to define operations over the data structure (e.g. providing some kind of 3rd party representation of an OWL ontology), then you should implement this interface accordingly. For each concrete class Concrete in the OWLClassAxiom hierarchy, a function visitConcrete(Concrete) must be provided.

The expression can then be visited using the accept method.

Use of the Visitor architecture allows us to add application-specific functionality without "tainting" the data structure. Be aware, though, that if the concrete subclasses of OWLClassAxiom change, then the implementors of this interface may need to change accordingly.

Version:

$Id: OWLClassAxiomVisitor.java,v 1.1.1.1 2003/10/14 17:10:08 sean_bechhofer Exp $

Method Summary

void	visit(OWLDisjointClassesAxiom axiom)
void	visit(OWLEquivalentClassesAxiom axiom)
void	visit(OWLSubClassAxiom axiom)

Method Detail

visit

public void visit(OWLDisjointClassesAxiom axiom)
           throws OWLException

OWLException

visit

public void visit(OWLEquivalentClassesAxiom axiom)
           throws OWLException

OWLException

visit

public void visit(OWLSubClassAxiom axiom)
           throws OWLException

OWLException