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/**
* Commons RDF, a common library of RDF 1.1 concepts.
* <p>
* The core <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/">RDF 1.1 concepts</a>
* are represented by corresponding interfaces:
* <p>
* A {@link org.apache.commons.rdf.api.Graph} is a collection of
* {@link org.apache.commons.rdf.api.Triple}s, which have a <em>subject</em>,
* <em>predicate</em> and <em>object</em> of
* {@link org.apache.commons.rdf.api.RDFTerm}s. The three types of RDF terms are
* {@link org.apache.commons.rdf.api.IRI},
* {@link org.apache.commons.rdf.api.Literal} and
* {@link org.apache.commons.rdf.api.BlankNode}.
* <p>
* Implementations of this API should provide an
* {@link org.apache.commons.rdf.api.RDF} to facilitate creation of these
* objects.
* <p>
* All the {@link org.apache.commons.rdf.api.RDFTerm} objects are immutable,
* while a {@link org.apache.commons.rdf.api.Graph} MAY be mutable (e.g. support
* methods like {@link org.apache.commons.rdf.api.Graph#add(Triple)}).
* <p>
* {@link org.apache.commons.rdf.api.RDFSyntax} enumerates the W3C standard RDF
* 1.1 syntaxes and their media types.
* <p>
* For further documentation and contact details, see the
* <a href="http://commonsrdf.incubator.apache.org/">Commons RDF</a> web site.
*
*/
package org.apache.commons.rdf.api;