damlinstance.java

jena2.5.4推理机系统的一种最基本实现 HP实验室出品

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 * Source code information
 * -----------------------
 * Original author    Ian Dickinson, HP Labs Bristol
 * Author email       [e-mail]
 * Package            Jena
 * Created            4 Jan 2001
 * Filename           $RCSfile: DAMLInstance.java,v $
 * Revision           $Revision: 1.10 $
 * Release status     Preview-release $State: Exp $
 *
 * Last modified on   $Date: 2007/01/08 14:40:52 $
 *               by   $Author: ian_dickinson $
 *
 * (c) Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
 * (see footer for full conditions)
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// Package
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package com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology.daml;


// Imports
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import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Property;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.util.iterator.ExtendedIterator;



/**
 * Java representation of a DAML Instance.
 *
 * @author Ian Dickinson, HP Labs (<a href="mailto:[e-mail]">email</a>)
 * @version CVS info: $Id: DAMLInstance.java,v 1.10 2007/01/08 14:40:52 ian_dickinson Exp $
 * @deprecated The DAML API is scheduled to be removed from Jena 2.6 onwards. Please use the DAML profile in the main ontology API
 */
public interface DAMLInstance
    extends DAMLCommon
{
    // Constants
    //////////////////////////////////



    // External signature methods
    //////////////////////////////////

    /**
     * Property accessor for <code>daml:sameIndividualAs</code> property on a DAML instance.
     *
     * @return a property accessor
     */
    public PropertyAccessor prop_sameIndividualAs();


    /**
     * Return an iterator over all of the instances that are the same as this one,
     * by generating the transitive closure over the <code>daml:samePropertyAs</code>
     * property.
     *
     * @return an iterator whose values will all be DAMLInstance objects
     */
    public ExtendedIterator getSameInstances();


    /**
     * Answer an iterator over all of the DAML instances that are equivalent to this
     * instance, which will be the union of <code>daml:equivalentTo</code> and
     * <code>daml:sameIndividualAs</code>.
     *
     * @return an iterator ranging over every equivalent DAML instance - each value of
     *         the iteration should be a DAMLInstance object.
     */
    public ExtendedIterator getEquivalentValues();


    /**
     * Answer a property accessor for a user defined property.
     *
     * @param property An RDF or DAML property
     * @return a property accessor, that simplifies some of the basic operations
     *         of a given property on a given object
     */
    public PropertyAccessor accessProperty( Property property );

}



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