XSLT transformation generating OWL ontologies automatically based on XML Schemas

Designing domain ontologies from scratch is a time-consuming process. In many cases, both the terminologies and the syntactic structures of domain data models are already described in form of XML Schemas. XSLT transformations are used to lift the syntactic level of XML documents to the semantic level of OWL ontologies by mapping any XML Schemas to generated ontologies automatically. Ontology engineers base domain ontologies on generated ontologies to enrich the information located in the XML schemas with additional domain specific semantic information. The aim of this paper is to show the implementation of the general approach transforming any XML Schemas into generated ontologies automatically using XSLT.