com.bigdata.rdf.vocab

Interface VocabularyDecl

All Known Implementing Classes:

BaseVocabularyDecl, BSBMVocabularyDecl, DCAllVocabularyDecl, DCElementsVocabularyDecl, FOAFVocabularyDecl, GeoSpatialVocabularyDecl, LUBMVocabularyDecl, OPVocabularyDecl, OWLVocabularyDecl, PubChemVocabularyDecl, RDFSVocabularyDecl, RDFVocabularyDecl, SesameVocabularyDecl, SKOSVocabularyDecl, TestVocabularyDecl_BLZG1591, VoidVocabularyDecl, XMLSchemaVocabularyDecl

public interface VocabularyDecl

A class for declaring a Vocabulary.

Note: Implementations of a VocabularyDecl MUST be stable across the life cycle of an AbstractTripleStore. For this reason it is strongly recommended that new versions of a vocabulary are defined in a new class.

Each class SHOULD provide a declaration for the namespace(s) used by the vocabulary. It is convention to expose this String value as a public static field named NAMESPACE. Declaring the namespace used by provides for compact encoding of URIs within that namespace (e.g., using a VocabURIShortIV for the namespace and a compressed unicode representation of the localName of the URI) even if those URIs were not part of the original vocabulary declaration. Thus, it provides a compact fallback encoding if the vocabulary evolves after the AbstractTripleStore has been provisioned.

Version:

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Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Iterator<org.openrdf.model.URI>	values() Return an iterator which will visit the declared values.

Method Detail

values

Iterator<org.openrdf.model.URI> values()

Return an iterator which will visit the declared values. The iterator must not support removal.