xsdcomponent.java

normkit is a set of tools supporting ontology learning. from xml,xsd to rdfs.

package it.itc.ectrl.normkit.cnorm.XSModel;

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.HashSet;

import it.itc.ectrl.normkit.cnorm.impl.C_NormalisationImpl;
import it.itc.ectrl.normkit.cnorm.heuristics.*;

/**
 * Abstract parent class for all specific XML Schema component classes for use by the Normalisation Toolkit (currently used only in C-Normalisation).
 * @author Oliver Fodor ([e-mail])
 */
public abstract class XSDComponent {
    /**
     * The C-Normalisation process addressing this component in order to extract a RDFS entity.
     */
    C_NormalisationImpl m_c_norm;

    /**
     * Set of normalisation heuristics relevant for this component.
     */
    Set m_normalisationHeuristics = new HashSet();

    /**
     * Creates an instance of this class for a particular C-Normalisation process.
     * @param C_NormalisationImpl the C-Normalisation process to be associated with this component
     */
    public XSDComponent(C_NormalisationImpl c_norm) throws Exception {

        m_c_norm = c_norm;

        initialize();

    }

    protected void initialize() throws Exception {

    }

    /**
     * Associates given normalisation heuristic with this XML Schema component.
     * @param NormalisationHeuristic heuristic to be associated with this component
     */
    protected void associateNormalisationHeuristic(NormalisationHeuristic normalisationHeuristic) throws Exception {

        m_normalisationHeuristics.add(normalisationHeuristic);

    }

    /**
     * Executes associated normalisation heuristics in order to extract RDFS entities.
     */
    public void runNormalisationHeuristics() throws Exception {

        for(Iterator iterator = m_normalisationHeuristics.iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {

            NormalisationHeuristic nh = (NormalisationHeuristic)iterator.next();

            nh.run();

        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns the associated C-Normalisation process.
     */
    public C_NormalisationImpl getC_Normalisation() {

        return m_c_norm;

    }

}