On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 12:02 -0500, Benson Margulies wrote: > Given a Resource, and wanting the value of a particular literal, I'm > not seeing any quicker API than calling getProperty and pulling the > value from the statement. Am I missing something?
The OntAPI (e.g. OntResource) has some convenience methods for getting the values of properties. You can use the OntAPI even if you are not explicitly using OWL. We talked about, but have never agreed on, how to merge the general purpose utilities in the OntAPI (and in various personal/project level utils) into the base API. On the one hand the base API leads to verbose code and most of us have a little package of functions to simplify the common cases. On the other hand we get regular and justifiable complaints that the base API is just far too big and it is hard to find your way round the sheer volume methods on Model and Resource. Dave
