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 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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 * This first version of the R2RML API was developed jointly at the University of Oslo, 
 * the University of Bolzano, La Sapienza University of Rome, and fluid Operations AG, 
 * as part of the Optique project, www.optique-project.eu
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package eu.optique.api.mapping;

import java.util.Set;

/**
 * Used to serialize an R2RML mapping.
 * 
 * @author Marius Strandhaug
 */
public interface SerializeR2RML {

	/**
	 * Serializes the R2RML component to a list of RDF triples.
	 * 
	 * @param tripleClass
	 *            Must be equal to (or a superclass of) the library's triples
	 *            class.
	 * @return A set of triples.
	 */
	public  Set serialize(Class tripleClass);

}