Docs For Class Literal

Description

An RDF literal.

The literal supports the xml:lang and rdf:datatype property. For XML datatypes see: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/

author: Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>
author: Daniel Westphal <dawe@gmx.de>
version: $Id: Literal.html 443 2007-06-01 16:25:38Z cax $
access: public

Object
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   --Node
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      --Literal

Direct descendents

Class	Description
ResLiteral	An RDF literal.

Method Summary

Literal Literal (string $str, [string $language = NULL])

boolean equals (object literal $that)

string getDatatype ()

string getLabel ()

string getLanguage ()

void setDatatype (string $datatype)

void setLanguage (string $lang)

string toString ()

Methods

Constructor Literal (line 51)

Constructor

Literal Literal (string $str, [string $language = NULL])

string $str: label of the literal
string $language: optional language identifier

equals (line 134)

Checks if ihe literal equals another literal.

Two literals are equal, if they have the same label and they have the same language/datatype or both have no language/datatype property set.

access: public

boolean equals (object literal $that)

object literal $that

getDatatype (line 103)

Returns the datatype of the literal.

return: datatype of the literal
access: public

string getDatatype ()

getLabel (line 70)

Returns the string value of the literal.

return: value of the literal
access: public

string getLabel ()

getLanguage (line 81)

Returns the language of the literal.

return: language of the literal
access: public

string getLanguage ()

setDatatype (line 117)

Sets the datatype of the literal.

Instead of datatype URI, you can also use an datatype shortcuts like STRING or INTEGER. The array $short_datatype with the possible shortcuts is definded in ../constants.php

access: public

void setDatatype (string $datatype)

string $datatype: URI of XML datatype or datatype shortcut

setLanguage (line 92)

Sets the language of the literal.

access: public

void setLanguage (string $lang)

string $lang

toString (line 159)

Dumps literal.

access: public

string toString ()

Redefinition of:

Object::toString(): Serializes a object into a string

Inherited Methods

Inherited From Object

Object::toString()