com.hp.hpl.mesa.rdf.jena.model
Interface Property

All Superinterfaces:

RDFNode, Resource

All Known Subinterfaces:

DAMLDatatypeProperty, DAMLObjectProperty, DAMLProperty

All Known Implementing Classes:

PropertyImpl, PropertyImplRDB

public interface Property

extends Resource

An RDF Property.

Version:

Release='$Name: $' Revision='$Revision: 1.2 $' Date='$Date: 2001/04/19 13:28:16 $'

Author:

bwm

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getLocalName() Returns the name of this property within its namespace.
java.lang.String	getNameSpace() Returns the namespace associated with this property.
int	getOrdinal() Returns the ordinal value of a containment property.

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, getModel, getProperty, getURI, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, isAnon, listProperties, listProperties, removeProperties, toString

Method Detail

getNameSpace

public java.lang.String getNameSpace()

Returns the namespace associated with this property.

Specified by:

getNameSpace in interface Resource

Returns:

The namespace for this property.

getLocalName

public java.lang.String getLocalName()

Returns the name of this property within its namespace.

Specified by:

getLocalName in interface Resource

Returns:

The name of this property within its namespace.

getOrdinal

public int getOrdinal()

Returns the ordinal value of a containment property.

RDF containers use properties of the form _1, _2, _3 etc to represent the containment relationship between the container and the objects it contains. When invoked on such a containment property, this method returns the integer part of the property name. When invoked on other properties, it returns 0.

Returns:

The ordinal value of a containment property, or 0 otherwise.