net.ontopia.topicmaps.core
Interface TopicMapFragmentWriterIF

All Known Implementing Classes:

RDFFragmentExporter, XTMTopicMapFragmentWriter

public interface TopicMapFragmentWriterIF

PUBLIC: Implementations of this interface can export fragments of topic maps to some Topic Maps syntax given a collection of topics to include. Generally, the fragments will include all identifiers, types, names, occurrences, and associations of the topics.

Since:

5.1.3

Method Summary

void	endTopicMap() PUBLIC: Ends the fragment.
void	exportAll(java.util.Iterator<TopicIF> it) PUBLIC: Exports all the topics returned by the iterator, and wraps them with startTopicMap() and endTopicMap() calls.
void	exportTopic(TopicIF topic) PUBLIC: Exports the given topic.
void	exportTopics(java.util.Iterator<TopicIF> it) PUBLIC: Exports all the topics returned by the iterator.
void	startTopicMap() PUBLIC: Starts the fragment.

Method Detail

startTopicMap

void startTopicMap()
                   throws java.io.IOException

PUBLIC: Starts the fragment.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

exportAll

void exportAll(java.util.Iterator<TopicIF> it)
               throws java.io.IOException

PUBLIC: Exports all the topics returned by the iterator, and wraps them with startTopicMap() and endTopicMap() calls.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

exportTopics

void exportTopics(java.util.Iterator<TopicIF> it)
                  throws java.io.IOException

PUBLIC: Exports all the topics returned by the iterator.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

exportTopic

void exportTopic(TopicIF topic)
                 throws java.io.IOException

PUBLIC: Exports the given topic.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

endTopicMap

void endTopicMap()
                 throws java.io.IOException

PUBLIC: Ends the fragment.

Throws:

java.io.IOException