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RDF2go is an implementation-independent Java API with the design goals: portability (hence the name), performance and ease of implementation. This project was started at FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe, Germany - www.fzi.de

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/**
 * LICENSE INFORMATION
 *
 * Copyright 2005-2008 by FZI (http://www.fzi.de).
 * Licensed under a BSD license (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php)
 *  = Max Völkel
 *  = FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
 *  = 2010
 *
 * Further project information at http://semanticweb.org/wiki/RDF2Go
 */

package org.ontoware.rdf2go.model.node;


/**
 * This Interface represents a RDF literal. Any Literal Class should implement
 * this
 * 
 * The toString method should also return the getValue().
 * 
 * Implementations are expected to have valid implementations of equals( Object )
 * and hashCode()
 * 
 * @author mvo
 * 
 */
public interface Literal extends Node {

	/**
	 * gets the value of the literal
	 * 
	 * @return The literal
	 */
	public String getValue();

}