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package org.apache.clerezza.commons.rdf;
/**
* A Blank Node represents a resource,
* but does not indicate a URI for the resource. Blank nodes act like
* existentially qualified variables in first order logic.
*
* An <a href= "http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#dfn-blank-node" >RDF-1.1
* Blank Node</a>, as defined by <a href=
* "http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#section-blank-nodes" >RDF-1.1 Concepts
* and Abstract Syntax</a>, a W3C Recommendation published on 25 February 2014.<br>
*
* Note that: Blank nodes are disjoint from IRIs and literals. Otherwise,
* the set of possible blank nodes is arbitrary. RDF makes no reference to any
* internal structure of blank nodes.
*
*
* @see <a href= "http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#dfn-blank-node">RDF-1.1
* Blank Node</a>
*/
public class BlankNode implements BlankNodeOrIRI {
}