Hi,
Using the ontology API, if one owl:imports an ontology URI such as
<http://www.w3.org/ns/org#> into ontology model, the imported model
gets cached under the "http://www.w3.org/ns/org#"; key.
However, given
<http://www.w3.org/ns/org#> a owl:Ontology
one can argue that this URI is of the ontology resource, but what gets
loaded and cached is more than that -- it is the ontology *document*.
This relates to the old debate whether ontology instances should
contain the trailing # in their URIs, i.e. whether ontology and its
document is the same resource or distinct resources.
The problem is that despite the ontology being cached, code that
attempts to dereference its document URI will not be able to make use
of it as "http://www.w3.org/ns/org"; will not match the
"http://www.w3.org/ns/org#"; cache key.
My questions are:
1. How can I work around this? Using some kind of post-loadImports()
hook to make cache entries for both URIs?
2. Shouldn't the OWL import code be aware of this and cache the
document URI while using it as a base for all relative URIs (of
ontology terms)?
Martynas
atomgraph.com
