OntoDL

About OntoDL

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OntoDL Tutorial

Defining Terminologies and Concepts

• Defining a Terminology
• Refining Concept Definitions
• Using Heading Templates
• Using Custom Style Sheets

Using Existing Terminologies

• Using the CTS2LE Global Object
• Using Patterns
• Defining a Value Set

Using Objects

• Defining an untyped Object
• Assigning Objects to Attributes

More Features

• Defining Obligations
• Using Defaults
• Using Hyperlinks for Steering the Tokenizer
• Synonyms and Fully Specified Names
• Defining and Using OntoDL Functions
• Using Globally Defined Objects

OntoDL Language Reference

The OntoDL language consists of three kinds of commands:

• OntoDL Statements: ...
• Style Sheet Directives: ...
• Tokenizer Directives: ...

OntoDL Statements

define

define a new OntoDL object

set

set the value of a named property of an identifiable object

default

set a default value for a named property

--predicate-->

define a concept relationship

Style Sheet Directives

OntoDL.StyleName

implicit assignment of a value to the property StyleName within the definiton scope of an OntoDL object

#style

implicit assignment of a values - encoded within a text of a defined style sheet - to defined properties within the definition scope of an OntoDL object

#heading

binding of the scope of a heading to an OntoDL object definition with an implict assignment of values to properties of the defined object

#obligation

trigger the execution of a set of commands and/or directives before or after text of a defined style sheet is processed

#pattern

template-based transformation of a text that is formatted with a defined style sheet

Tokenizer Directives

#goto ... #return

control how the OntoDL tokenizer scans through the document

#package ... #endpackage

define a named subroutine that can be linked to an obligation