Re: [OWLAPI-developer] Rewrite import statements at serialization time

[Matthew H. <mat...@cs...>]

On 27 May 2011, at 11:03, Ignazio Palmisano wrote:

> 2011/5/27 Alessandro Adamou <arr...@ti...>:
>> I have used the AutoIRIMapper for loading earlier, but that one maps to the
>> local filesystem via a root directory. I simply need to rewrite HTTP URIs
>> into other HTTP URIs in import statements though. What does AutoIRIMapper do
>> about that?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Alessandro
>> 
> 
> It won't help by itself but it's an example of a remapper from IRI to
> ontology. With a similar approach, you can have a remapping from one
> IRI to another; I'm not sure if there is anything like that in the
> current API, but should not be hard to do.

Try SimpleIRIMapper (I think it's called that, but I struggle to remember at the moment).

Cheers,

Matthew


> HTH,
> I.
> 
>> 
>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Alessandro Adamou <arr...@ti...>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I have an OWLOntologyManager which loads an ontology and its imports
>>> closure. Suppose however I want to "hijack" the imports so that they point
>>> to local versions of the imported ontology.
>>> 
>>> e.g. it imports FOAF, which was originally loaded from
>>> http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/index.rdf but I have copied to
>>> http://www.myontologies.org/foaf
>>> 
>>> I would like a behaviour so that when I serialize the ontology with
>>> OWLOntologyManager#saveOntology(), the import statement for FOAF points to
>>> http://www.myontologies.org/foaf although the ontology was loaded from
>>> http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/index.rdf (assuming they are the same ontology)
>>> 
>>> And I would like to do this:
>>> 1) without altering the import statements in the OWLOntology
>>> 2) without creating a new OWLOntology with the rewritten imports
>>> 3) without performing manual string replacement once the ontology is
>>> serialized.
>>> 
>>> Is there a sound an elegant way to do so at serialization time? Perhaps
>>> there is a way to use IRI mappers for this purpose?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alessandro
>> 
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