org.opengis.util
Interface NameSpace


@UML(identifier="NameSpace",
     specification=ISO_19103)
public interface NameSpace

A domain in which names given by character strings are defined. Every GenericName must be valid in a namespace. For a LocalName, this means that the name must exist in the current namespace. For a ScopedName, this means:

  1. The head of a ScopedName must be a LocalName which is valid in this namespace.
  2. The tail must either be:

Since:
2.1

Method Summary
 boolean isGlobal()
          Indicates whether this namespace is a "top level" namespace.
 GenericName name()
          Represents the identifier of this namespace.
 

Method Detail

isGlobal

@UML(identifier="isGlobal",
     obligation=MANDATORY,
     specification=ISO_19103)
boolean isGlobal()
Indicates whether this namespace is a "top level" namespace. Global, or top-level namespaces are not contained within another namespace. There is no namespace called "global" or "root" which contains all of the top-level namespaces. Hence, this flag indicates whether the namespace has a parent.

Returns:
true if this namespace has no parent.

name

@UML(identifier="name",
     obligation=MANDATORY,
     specification=ISO_19103)
GenericName name()
Represents the identifier of this namespace. If the global attribute is true, indicating that this is a top level NameSpace, then the name shall be a local name. If false, name shall be a fully-qualified name where name.scope().isGlobal() == true.

Returns:
The identifier of this namespace.


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