viper.descriptors.attributes
Interface ExtendedAttributeValue

All Superinterfaces:

AttributeValue, Measurable

public interface ExtendedAttributeValue

extends AttributeValue

Some attributes have extra config information. Their must implement this interface. When outputing the attribute config section, this method is called on each attribute's archetype.

Author:

davidm

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes inherited from class viper.descriptors.attributes.Measurable

Measurable.Difference

Method Summary

org.w3c.dom.Element	getExtraConfig(org.w3c.dom.Document root) Gets the extra config information as an XML DOM node.
java.lang.String	getExtraConfigString() Gets the extra config information for the attribute.

Methods inherited from interface viper.descriptors.attributes.AttributeValue

setValue, setValue, toXML, validate

Methods inherited from interface viper.descriptors.attributes.Measurable

getDifference, getDifference, getType

Method Detail

getExtraConfigString

public java.lang.String getExtraConfigString()

Gets the extra config information for the attribute.

Returns:

the extra config string

getExtraConfig

public org.w3c.dom.Element getExtraConfig(org.w3c.dom.Document root)

Gets the extra config information as an XML DOM node.

Parameters:

root - the document root; necessary for creation of a DOM node

Returns:

the element