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Re: ANN: OWL API (Java version and XSLT version)

• To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@mitre.org>
• Subject: Re: [xml-dev] ANN: OWL API (Java version and XSLT version)
• From: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@propylon.com>
• Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 19:09:34 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• In-reply-to: <3EE343A1.A7670683@mitre.org>
• Organization: Propylon
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Roger L. Costello wrote:

> Here is a summary of the API:
> 
>     public String getProperties(String classURI) {…}
>     public String getEquivalentProperties(String propertyURI) {…}
>     public String getSuperClasses(String classURI) {…}
>     public String getPropertyTypes(String propertyURI) {…}
>     public String getClassSpecificPropertyDefinitions(String classURI,
> String propertyURI) {…}
>     public String getDomain(String propertyURI) {…}
>     public String getRange(String propertyURI) {…}
>     public String getInstances(String classURI) {…}
>     public String getEquivalentClasses(String classURI) {…}

If you added

   String get(Filter f, String uri);

and made each of the calls above typesafe optimizations of the 
generic get, your API will be extensible without subclassing. You'll 
also have the basis for a query API later on.

Bill de hÓra

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    • From: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@mitre.org>

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