com.hp.hpl.jena.daml
Interface DAMLDatatype

All Superinterfaces:

DAMLCommon, RDFNode, Resource

All Known Implementing Classes:

DAMLDatatypeImpl

public interface DAMLDatatype

extends DAMLCommon

A DAML datatype represents a set of values from a concrete domain, as opposed to a Class, which is a set of values from the instance domain. Dataypes and Classes are disjoint. In DAML, XML schema is used to encode values from concrete domains.

Version:

CVS info: $Id: DAMLDatatype.java,v 1.1 2001/09/24 17:02:38 ijd Exp $

Author:

Ian Dickinson, HP Labs (email)

Method Summary

DatatypeTranslator

getTranslator() Answer the traslator that can map between Java values and the serialised form that represents the value in the RDF graph.

Methods inherited from interface com.hp.hpl.jena.daml.DAMLCommon

getAll, getDAMLModel, getEquivalenceSet, getEquivalentValues, getNumPropertyValues, getPropertyValue, getPropertyValues, getRDFTypes, getVocabulary, hasRDFType, hasRDFType, prop_comment, prop_equivalentTo, prop_label, prop_type, remove, removeAll, removeProperty, replaceProperty, setPropertyValue, setRDFType, setRDFType

Methods inherited from interface com.hp.hpl.mesa.rdf.jena.model.Resource

abort, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, begin, commit, equals, getId, getLocalName, getModel, getNameSpace, getProperty, getURI, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, isAnon, listProperties, listProperties, removeProperties, toString

Method Detail

getTranslator

public DatatypeTranslator getTranslator()

Answer the traslator that can map between Java values and the serialised form that represents the value in the RDF graph.

Returns:

a datatype translator.