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  package ch.uzh.ifi.attempto.acewiki.owl;
  
  import org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.IRI;
  import org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLDeclarationAxiom;
  import org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLLogicalEntity;
  
  /**
   * This interface represents an ontology element that has a representation in OWL.
   * 
   * @author Tobias Kuhn
   */
  public interface OWLOntoElement {
  
  	/**
  	 * Returns the IRI of the ontology element. This IRI is a concatenation of the
  	 * ontology IRI and the IRI suffix of the ontology element.
  	 * 
  	 * @return The IRI.
  	 */
  	public abstract IRI getIRI();
  
  	/**
  	 * This method returns an OWL object for the given ontology element.
  	 * 
  	 * @return An OWL object.
  	 */
  	public abstract OWLLogicalEntity getOWLRepresentation();
  
  	/**
  	 * This method returns an OWL axiom that declares the given ontology element.
  	 * 
  	 * @return An OWL declaration axiom.
  	 */
  	public abstract OWLDeclarationAxiom getOWLDeclaration();
  
  }