gate

Interface SimpleDocument

All Superinterfaces:

Comparable<Object>, FeatureBearer, LanguageResource, NameBearer, Resource, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

Document, TextualDocument

All Known Implementing Classes:

DocumentImpl

public interface SimpleDocument
extends LanguageResource, Comparable<Object>

Represents the commonalities between all sorts of documents.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static String	DOCUMENT_URL_PARAMETER_NAME The parameter name for the document URL

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
AnnotationSet	getAnnotations() Get the default set of annotations.
AnnotationSet	getAnnotations(String name) Get a named set of annotations.
Set<String>	getAnnotationSetNames()
DocumentContent	getContent()
URL	getSourceUrl() Documents are identified by URLs
void	removeAnnotationSet(String name) Removes one of the named annotation sets.
void	setContent(DocumentContent newContent) Set method for the document content
void	setSourceUrl(URL sourceUrl) Set method for the document's URL

Methods inherited from interface gate.LanguageResource

getDataStore, getLRPersistenceId, getParent, isModified, setDataStore, setLRPersistenceId, setParent, sync

Methods inherited from interface gate.Resource

cleanup, getParameterValue, init, setParameterValue, setParameterValues

Methods inherited from interface gate.util.FeatureBearer

getFeatures, setFeatures

Methods inherited from interface gate.util.NameBearer

getName, setName

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Field Detail

DOCUMENT_URL_PARAMETER_NAME

static final String DOCUMENT_URL_PARAMETER_NAME

The parameter name for the document URL

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getSourceUrl

URL getSourceUrl()

Documents are identified by URLs

setSourceUrl

void setSourceUrl(URL sourceUrl)

Set method for the document's URL

getContent

DocumentContent getContent()

setContent

void setContent(DocumentContent newContent)

Set method for the document content

getAnnotations

AnnotationSet getAnnotations()

Get the default set of annotations. The set is created if it doesn't exist yet.

getAnnotations

AnnotationSet getAnnotations(String name)

Get a named set of annotations. Creates a new set if one with this name doesn't exist yet.

getAnnotationSetNames

Set<String> getAnnotationSetNames()

Returns:

a set of all named annotation sets in existence or null if none.

removeAnnotationSet

void removeAnnotationSet(String name)

Removes one of the named annotation sets. Note that the default annotation set cannot be removed.

Parameters:

name - the name of the annotation set to be removed