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Interface FeatureMap

All Superinterfaces:
Map
All Known Implementing Classes:
SimpleFeatureMapImpl

public interface FeatureMap
extends Map

An attribute-value matrix. Represents the content of an annotation, the meta-data on a resource, and anything else we feel like.


Inner classes inherited from class java.util.Map
Map.Entry
 
Method Summary
 boolean subsumes(FeatureMap aFeatureMap)
          Test if this featureMap object is included in aFeatureMap
 
Methods inherited from interface java.util.Map
clear, containsKey, containsValue, entrySet, equals, get, hashCode, isEmpty, keySet, put, putAll, remove, size, values
 

Method Detail

subsumes

public boolean subsumes(FeatureMap aFeatureMap)
Test if this featureMap object is included in aFeatureMap
Parameters:
aFeatureMap - object which will incude or not this FeatureMap obj.
Returns:
true if this is incuded in aFeatureMap and false if not.