com.hp.hpl.jena.daml
Interface Datatype

All Superinterfaces:

DAMLCommon, RDFNode, Resource

public interface Datatype

extends DAMLCommon

A Datatype, in the overall DAML ontology, represents values from concrete domains that are not formalised as part of the DAML model theory. In particular, the category Datatype is disjoint from the category Class, so any value is either typed as an instance of a class or of a datatype. XML Schema data descriptions are used to encode the concrete domain of a datatype. In general, we provide a general mechanism for mapping between Java objects and datatype values, propulated by a small sample of common cases from the XML schema specification. However, this mechanism is extensible, so users can add additional mappings for a given application.

Version:

CVS info: $Id: Datatype.java,v 1.1 2001/09/24 17:02:40 ijd Exp $

Author:

Ian Dickinson, HP Labs (email)

Method Summary

DatatypeTranslator

getTranslator() Answer the translator that will translate between an RDF/XML representation and a Java value.

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 translator that will translate between an RDF/XML representation and a Java value.

Returns:

this datatype's translator