net.sourceforge.nite.meta
Interface NOntology

All Known Implementing Classes:
NiteOntology

public interface NOntology

Information about an Ontology. An example is an ontology of gesture types. Only one element name is permitted in an ontology (but it is recursive. Only one significant attribute is permitted on ontology elements.

Author:
jonathan

Method Summary
 java.lang.String getAttributeName()
          returns the significant attribute name for this ontology.
 java.lang.String getDescription()
          returns a description of the ontology.
 java.lang.String getElementName()
          returns the element name of this ontology.
 java.lang.String getFileName()
          returns the file name of this ontology.
 java.lang.String getName()
          returns the name of this ontology as used to point to this ontology.
 

Method Detail

getName

java.lang.String getName()
returns the name of this ontology as used to point to this ontology.


getDescription

java.lang.String getDescription()
returns a description of the ontology.


getFileName

java.lang.String getFileName()
returns the file name of this ontology.


getElementName

java.lang.String getElementName()
returns the element name of this ontology.


getAttributeName

java.lang.String getAttributeName()
returns the significant attribute name for this ontology.