org.newsml.toolkit
Interface Description

All Superinterfaces:

BaseNode, IdNode, IdText, LanguageNode, Text

public interface Description

extends LanguageNode, IdText

A natural-language description of a topic.

Version:

2.0

Author:

Reuters PLC

Method Summary

Text	getVariant() An arbitrary tag to distinguish this description from others.

Methods inherited from interface org.newsml.toolkit.LanguageNode

getLang

Methods inherited from interface org.newsml.toolkit.Text

setBoolean, setInt, setString, toBoolean, toInt, toString

Methods inherited from interface org.newsml.toolkit.BaseNode

getAttr, getChild, getChild, getChild, getChild, getChildCount, getChildCount, getParent, getPath, getSession, getXMLName, getXPath, insertAfter, insertAfter, insertAfter, insertAfter, insertAfterDuid, insertAfterDuid, insertBefore, insertBefore, insertBefore, insertBefore, insertBeforeDuid, insertBeforeDuid, insertChild, insertChild, insertFirst, insertFirst, insertLast, insertLast, removeChild, removeChild, removeSelf, replaceChild, replaceChild, replaceChild, replaceChild, replaceChild, replaceChild, setAttr, setAttr, toXML, toXML, unsetAttr, unsetAttr, writeXML, writeXML

Methods inherited from interface org.newsml.toolkit.IdNode

getDuid, getEuid

Method Detail

getVariant

public Text getVariant()

An arbitrary tag to distinguish this description from others.

Returns:

Text containing the variant tag, or null if none was provided.