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/*
 * Created on Dec 16, 2004
 */
package org.mindswap.owls.validation;

import java.util.Map;

import org.mindswap.owl.OWLOntology;


/**
 * Validate the <code>Service</code> description in the OWL-S ontology.
 * 
 * @author Evren Sirin
 */
public class OWLSValidator {
    /**
     * Return the validation errors associated with each service. There will be a list
     * of errors associated with each service. If a service description has no errors
     * in it there will not be any entries for that service. A result of empty map
     * means there were no errors (or no <code>Service</code> instances) found. 
     * 
     * @param ontology Ontology being validated
     * @return Map from Service objects to a list of <code>OWLValidationError</code>s.
     */
    public Map validate(OWLOntology ontology) {
        return null;
    }
}