NameSpace (Geotools modules 31-SNAPSHOT API)

```
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

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
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
```
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
```
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.