Module org.opengis.geoapi

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. 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:
   • a LocalName which is valid in the NameSpace associated with the head, or
   • another ScopedName with these same constraints on head and tail, applied to the NameSpace associated with the head.

Since:

2.1

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 Details

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.