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1 /*****************************************************************************
2  * Source code information
3  * -----------------------
4  * Original author Ian Dickinson, HP Labs Bristol
5  * Author email Ian_Dickinson@hp.com
6  * Package Jena
7  * Created 17 Sept 2001
8  * Filename $RCSfile: DAMLDatatype.java,v $
9  * Revision $Revision: 1.7 $
10  * Release status Preview-release $State: Exp $
11  *
12  * Last modified on $Date: 2005/02/21 12:04:58 $
13  * by $Author: andy_seaborne $
14  *
15  * (c) Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
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18
19 // Package
20 ///////////////
21 package com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology.daml;
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23
24
25 // Imports
26 ///////////////
27 import com.hp.hpl.jena.datatypes.RDFDatatype;
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32 /**
33  * <p>A DAML datatype represents a set of values from a concrete domain, as opposed to
34  * a Class, which is a set of values from the instance domain. Datatypes and
35  * Classes are disjoint. In DAML, XML schema is used to encode values from
36  * concrete domains.</p>
37  *
38  * @author Ian Dickinson, HP Labs (<a HREF="mailto:Ian.Dickinson@hp.com">email</a>)
39  * @version CVS info: $Id: DAMLDatatype.java,v 1.7 2005/02/21 12:04:58 andy_seaborne Exp $
40  */
41 public interface DAMLDatatype
42     extends DAMLCommon
43 {
44     // Constants
45 //////////////////////////////////
46
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48
49
50     // External signature methods
51 //////////////////////////////////
52
53     /**
54      * Answer the translator that can map between Java values and the serialized
55      * form that represents the value in the RDF graph.
56      *
57      * @return A datatype translator.
58      */
59     public RDFDatatype getTranslator();
60
61
62 }
63
64
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