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. 014 015 package 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 */ 025 public 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 }