001// Copyright 2004, 2005 The Apache Software Foundation 002// 003// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 004// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 005// You may obtain a copy of the License at 006// 007// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 008// 009// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 010// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 011// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 012// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 013// limitations under the License. 014 015package org.apache.hivemind; 016 017/** 018 * An attribute that may be attached to a {@link org.apache.hivemind.Element}. 019 * Namespaces not (yet) supported. Some assumptions are made that Attribute objects 020 * are immutable (name and value will not change once created, or at least, once 021 * added to an Element). 022 * 023 * @author Howard Lewis Ship 024 */ 025public interface Attribute 026{ 027 /** 028 * Returns the name of the attribute. 029 */ 030 public String getName(); 031 032 /** 033 * Returns the value of the attribute. 034 */ 035 public String getValue(); 036}