[Pellet-users] Seperating A & T boxes in Pellet

[Evren Sirin]

On 3/10/07 6:13 PM, Matt Williams wrote:
> Dear Evren,
>
> Looking at the API for the 1.4 rc2, I can see stuff relating to A and T 
> boxes. I was wondering:
>
> 1: Is it's possible to split the A & T box into separate structures, to 
> handle them differently.
>
>   
Do you mean serialize them separately? It is possible but there is no 
built-in function to do that for you.
> 2: If so, how to do it
> 3: The role of KnowledgeBase - and how you generate one from a Jena 
> model (I'm guessing there's a .getKB() method somewhere I haven't seen).
>
> I'm also a bit confused about the aterm references in some of the 
> methods - for example, some of the methods in
>
> org.mindswap.pellet.query.impl.QueryImpl
>
> require aterms to be passed - should I be "casting" an rdf node as an 
> aterm, or is it more complex than this?
>   
If you are going to use the Jena interface you don't really need to 
worry about the KB or ATerms. You simply create a Jena model, set Pellet 
as its reasoner and use only Jena specific functions. All the reasoning, 
transformations, etc. will be done in the background for you. See the 
sample programs provided in the examples directory of the distribution 
package (esp. JenaReasoner.java, PelletQueryExample.java).

Cheers,
Evren
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Matt
>
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