pyhornedowl.model.DeclareClass

class pyhornedowl.model.DeclareClass(first: Class)

Declares that an IRI represents a Class in the Ontology

In OWL, entities must be declared to be of a particular type. While, OWL (and Horned-OWL) allows the use of Class in an ontology where there is no declaration, the end ontology will change profile to OWL Full. See also the OWL Primer

Parameters:

first (Class)

serialize(self, serialization: Literal['ofn', 'omn'] = 'ofn', prefix_mapping: PrefixMapping = None)

Renders this element on its own, in OWL functional ("ofn", the default) or OWL 2 Manchester ("omn") syntax. The per-element counterpart to PyIndexedOntology.save_to_string.