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OWLAPI 4.5.24 adds a weird axiom annotation to OBO serialisation #1089

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OWLAPI 1.5.24 adds a weird axiom annotation to OBO serialisation. This was not previously the case and only happens if the ontology is not legal OWL.

Minimal example:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/fbbt/fbbt-simple.owl#"
     xml:base="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/fbbt/fbbt-simple.owl"
     xmlns:obo="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/"
     xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#"
     xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
     xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
     xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#"
     xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
     xmlns:oboInOwl="http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#">
    <owl:Ontology rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/fbbt/fbbt-simple.owl">
    </owl:Ontology>
    
    <owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000115">
        <obo:IAO_0000114 rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000122"/>
        <rdfs:label>definition</rdfs:label>
    </owl:AnnotationProperty>

    <owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#hasDbXref">
        <rdfs:label>database_cross_reference</rdfs:label>
    </owl:AnnotationProperty>
    
    <owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type"/>

    <owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FBbt_00000006">
        <obo:IAO_0000115>Any segment (FBbt:00000003) that is part of some head (FBbt:00000004).</obo:IAO_0000115>
        <oboInOwl:hasDbXref>UBERON:6000006</oboInOwl:hasDbXref>
    </owl:Class>
    <owl:Axiom>
        <owl:annotatedSource rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FBbt_00000006"/>
        <owl:annotatedProperty rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000115"/>
        <owl:annotatedTarget>Any segment (FBbt:00000003) that is part of some head (FBbt:00000004).</owl:annotatedTarget>
        <oboInOwl:hasDbXref>FlyBase:FBrf0075072</oboInOwl:hasDbXref>
    </owl:Axiom>

</rdf:RDF>

Running this command:

robot convert -i test.owl -f obo -o test.obo 

Will result in this OBO file:

format-version: 1.2
ontology: fbbt/fbbt-simple

[Term]
id: FBbt:00000006
def: "Any segment (FBbt:00000003) that is part of some head (FBbt:00000004)." [FlyBase:FBrf0075072] {http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type="owl:Axiom"}
xref: UBERON:6000006

While it should be:

format-version: 1.2
ontology: fbbt/fbbt-simple

[Term]
id: FBbt:00000006
def: "Any segment (FBbt:00000003) that is part of some head (FBbt:00000004)." [FlyBase:FBrf0075072]
xref: UBERON:6000006

The culprit is this axiom:

    <owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type"/>

Which constitutes a violation of the OWL specification, but unfortunately happens rather often.

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