Package 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.

Since:

GeoAPI 2.1

Author:

Bryce Nordgren (USDA), Martin Desruisseaux (IRD)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
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 should be a local name. If false, name should be a fully-qualified name where name.scope().isGlobal() == true .

Returns:

The identifier of this namespace.