Introduction

The XML Schema (XSD) to OWL Web Ontology mapping service XSD2OWL generates an OWL ontology representation of the input XSD.

Installation

To build the deployment WAR file using the source code and Maven:

mvn clean package

Use

When deployed in a local servlet container like Tomcat, the XSD2OWL service will be available at something like http://localhost:8080/xsd2owl

(The service is deployed at rhizomik.net/redefer-services/xsd2owl and it can be tested from http://rhizomik.net/redefer/)

It can called using GET. The parameter of the service is:

• rdf=URL: an URL pointing to the XML source of the XML Schema to be processed.

Examples using GET and the XSD2OWL service deployed at rhizomik.net/redefer-services/xsd2owl:

• Map the W3C XML Digital Signature XML Schema http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/xmldsig-core-schema.xsd:

  http://rhizomik.net/redefer-services/xsd2owl?xsd=http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/xmldsig-core-schema.xsd