de.lehmannet.om
Interface IExtendableSchemaElement

All Known Subinterfaces:

IFinding, ITarget

All Known Implementing Classes:

Finding, GenericFinding, GenericTarget, Target

public interface IExtendableSchemaElement

Some schema elements (e.g. IFinding, ITarget) have to be extended in several different types (e.g. DeepSkyTarget, VariableStarTarget..) representing several different astronomical objects.
These interfaces extend IExtendableSchemaElement, as it provides access to e.g. XML XSI Type information.

Since:

1.0

Author:

doergn@users.sourceforge.net

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

XML_XSI_TYPE Constant for XML Schema Instance type.

Method Summary

java.lang.String

getXSIType() Returns the XML schema instance type of the implementation.

Field Detail

XML_XSI_TYPE

static final java.lang.String XML_XSI_TYPE

Constant for XML Schema Instance type.
As target elements my differ from type to type (i.e. DeepSkyTarget, VariableStarTarget...) this constant can identifies a type.
Example:
<target xsi:type="fgca:deepSkyGX">More stuff goes here</target>

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getXSIType

java.lang.String getXSIType()

Returns the XML schema instance type of the implementation.
Example:

Returns:

The xsi:type value of this implementation