roboearth.wp5.owl.OWLIO Class Reference

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Static Public Member Functions
static OWLOntology	loadOntologyFromFile (String file)
static OWLOntology	loadOntologyFromStream (InputStream stream)
static OWLOntology	loadOntologyFromString (String s)
static OWLOntology	loadOntologyFromWeb (String url)
static boolean	saveOntologyToFile (OWLOntology ontology, String file)
static boolean	saveOntologyToFile (OWLOntology ontology, String file, OWLOntologyFormat format)
static boolean	saveOntologyToStream (OWLOntology ontology, OutputStream stream)
static boolean	saveOntologyToStream (OWLOntology ontology, OutputStream stream, OWLOntologyFormat format)
static String	saveOntologyToString (OWLOntology ontology)
static String	saveOntologyToString (OWLOntology ontology, OWLOntologyFormat format)
Static Public Attributes
static final OWLOntologyFormat	ONTOLOGY_FORMAT_RDFXML = new RDFXMLOntologyFormat()

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Detailed Description

A utility class providing methods to load, save and convert OWL ontologies in various ways.

Author:

Alexander Perzylo, perzylo@cs.tum.edu

Definition at line 84 of file OWLIO.java.

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Member Function Documentation

static OWLOntology roboearth.wp5.owl.OWLIO.loadOntologyFromFile

(

String

file

)

[inline, static]

Loads an OWL ontology from a given file.

Parameters:

file	name of file

Returns:

OWLOntology object containing the parsed ontology

Definition at line 152 of file OWLIO.java.

static OWLOntology roboearth.wp5.owl.OWLIO.loadOntologyFromStream

(

InputStream

stream

)

[inline, static]

Loads an OWL ontology from a given input stream.

Parameters:

stream

input stream

Returns:

OWLOntology object containing the parsed ontology

Definition at line 209 of file OWLIO.java.

static OWLOntology roboearth.wp5.owl.OWLIO.loadOntologyFromString

(

String

s

)

[inline, static]

Parses an OWL ontology from a given string.

Parameters:

s	String containing an OWL document

Returns:

OWLOntology object containing the parsed ontology

Definition at line 264 of file OWLIO.java.

static OWLOntology roboearth.wp5.owl.OWLIO.loadOntologyFromWeb

(

String

url

)

[inline, static]

Loads an OWL ontology from a given URL.

Parameters:

url	URL specifing the location of an OWL ontology

Returns:

OWLOntology object containing the parsed ontology

Definition at line 98 of file OWLIO.java.

static boolean roboearth.wp5.owl.OWLIO.saveOntologyToFile	(	OWLOntology	ontology,
		String	file
	)		[inline, static]

Saves an OWL ontology to a file.

Parameters:

ontology	ontology to be saved
file	name of target file

Returns:

true - if saving was successfully completed
false - otherwise

Definition at line 281 of file OWLIO.java.

static boolean roboearth.wp5.owl.OWLIO.saveOntologyToFile	(	OWLOntology	ontology,
		String	file,
		OWLOntologyFormat	format
	)		[inline, static]

Saves an OWL ontology to a file in a given ontology format.

Parameters:

ontology	ontology to be saved
file	name of target file
format	desired ontology format (

See also:

OWLOntologyFormat)

Returns:

true - if saving was successfully completed
false - otherwise

Definition at line 305 of file OWLIO.java.

static boolean roboearth.wp5.owl.OWLIO.saveOntologyToStream	(	OWLOntology	ontology,
		OutputStream	stream
	)		[inline, static]

Saves an OWL ontology to a given output stream.

Parameters:

ontology	ontology to be saved
stream	output stream

Returns:

true - if saving was successfully completed
false - otherwise

Definition at line 358 of file OWLIO.java.

static boolean roboearth.wp5.owl.OWLIO.saveOntologyToStream	(	OWLOntology	ontology,
		OutputStream	stream,
		OWLOntologyFormat	format
	)		[inline, static]

Saves an OWL ontology to an output stream in a given ontology format.

Parameters:

ontology	ontology to be saved
stream	output stream
format	desired ontology format (

See also:

OWLOntologyFormat)

Returns:

true - if saving was successfully completed
false - otherwise

Definition at line 382 of file OWLIO.java.

static String roboearth.wp5.owl.OWLIO.saveOntologyToString

(

OWLOntology

ontology

)

[inline, static]

Saves an OWL ontology to a String object using its current ontology format.

Parameters:

ontology

ontology to be saved

Returns:

String object containing the string representation of the ontology

Definition at line 431 of file OWLIO.java.

static String roboearth.wp5.owl.OWLIO.saveOntologyToString	(	OWLOntology	ontology,
		OWLOntologyFormat	format
	)		[inline, static]

Saves an OWL ontology to a String object.

Parameters:

ontology	ontology to be saved
format	desired ontology format (

See also:

OWLOntologyFormat)

Returns:

String object containing the string representation of the ontology

Definition at line 444 of file OWLIO.java.

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Member Data Documentation

final OWLOntologyFormat roboearth.wp5.owl.OWLIO.ONTOLOGY_FORMAT_RDFXML = new RDFXMLOntologyFormat() [static]

Ontology format object defining the RDF/XML format

Definition at line 90 of file OWLIO.java.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• OWLIO.java