Many thanks Scott.
On Dec 12, 5:01 am, Scott Henninger <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello Kim; These are appropriate questions. The error message on
> missing imports is actually a warning. You can ignore the warning if
> you want. But because you edited the text file (I take it you just
> deleted the owl:import statement), you will end up with some
> unreferenced resources. I.e. a triple refers to a resource that was
> in the import, but you are no longer importing the file.
>
> A better way to remove an import is to go to the imports tab in
> Composer and choose "Remove selected import". You will get a dialog
> asking whether you want to also removing things in your file that uses
> resources defined in the imported file. "Yes" will clean everything
> up as though the import never existed, but will remove some triples
> from your file.
>
> Help > TopBraid Composer > User Interface Overview > Imports View will
> give you some tips on the interface.
> Help > TopBraid Composer > Import and Export > Work with imported
> ontologies has good information on how owl:import works.
>
> If you want to save some of the imported triples into one file "clone"
> the ontology/file) , choose 'Export... > Export/Merge/Convert RDF
> graphs' from the navigator tab. Choose the file format you want (owl/
> n3/...). There will be a choice box for each imported file toward the
> bottom of the export wizard. Choose the imports you want, name the
> file and its base URI (best practice: one unique base URI for each
> file). The result will be that the file plus all import files you
> chose will be merged into the new file you created.
>
> -- Scott
>
> On Dec 10, 9:55 pm, KimT <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I'm new to using TopBraid, so this may be a silly question. I have
> > just created an ontology. This ontology imports several other
> > ontologies. I've now decided to create a different version of this
> > ontology, but this time using only some of the imported ontologies and
> > by referencing some of the classes I need from the other external
> > ontologies via their namespaces (instead of importing whole
> > ontologies). I realise that I need to change the baseURI in the second
> > ontology, but can't see how to edit that from within TopBraid ? If I
> > edit the owl file from outside TopBraid and then try to open the owl
> > file again in TopBraid I get error messages about missing imports. So
> > I can't seem to make a partial clone of my original ontology, minus
> > imports if I want it to be a new ontology with its own base URI.
>
> > Ideally, I would like to be able to drag and drop classes from one
> > ontology into another - is this possible ?
>
> > Can anyone give me a few clues about what to do.
>
> > Regards, Kim- Hide quoted text -
>
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