org.tm4j.topicmap .BaseName

Description

This interface describes a base name associated with a topic. A base name is the base form of a topic name; it is always a string. Base names can be scoped, meaning that the name is valid only within certain constraints. A popular way of using scoped base names is to define natural languages as scopes and to thereby be able to name a topic in various languages. One of the trickier implications of this is the Topic Naming Constraint, stating that if in a topic map context there are two topics with identical names in identical scopes, they must be merged. Basic names can also contain Variants, which need not necessarily represent strings. Scopes and variants can be addressed by implementing classes by using the methods of the parent ScopedObject and VariantContainer interfaces, respectively.

For more information about topic names, see the XTM 1.0 Specification..

Interfaces

• TopicMapObject
• ScopedObject

Implementations of this interface

• org.tm4j.topicmap.unified.UnifiedBaseName

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