org.semanticweb.owl.model
Interface OWLPropertyAxiomVisitor

All Known Implementing Classes:

OWLPropertyAxiomVisitorAdapter

public interface OWLPropertyAxiomVisitor

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 OWLPropertyAxiom 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 OWLPropertyAxiom change, then the implementors of this interface may need to change accordingly.

Version:

$Id: OWLPropertyAxiomVisitor.java,v 1.1.1.1 2003/10/14 17:10:09 sean_bechhofer Exp $

Method Summary

void	visit(OWLEquivalentPropertiesAxiom axiom)
void	visit(OWLSubPropertyAxiom axiom)

Method Detail

visit

public void visit(OWLEquivalentPropertiesAxiom axiom)
           throws OWLException

OWLException

visit

public void visit(OWLSubPropertyAxiom axiom)
           throws OWLException

OWLException