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Interface IHasForm

All Known Subinterfaces:
IConcordanceToken, IInfMWEDesc, IInfMWEDesc.IInfPart, IMWE<T>, IMWEDesc, IMWEDesc.IPart, IMWEDescID, IndexBuilder.IMutableMWEDesc, IRootMWEDesc, IRootMWEDesc.IRootPart, IToken
All Known Implementing Classes:
AbstractMWEDesc, AbstractMWEDesc.AbstractPart, ConcordanceTagger.TaggerToken, ConcordanceToken, IndexBuilder.MutableInfMWEDesc, IndexBuilder.MutableRootMWEDesc, InfMWEDesc, InfMWEDesc.InfPart, MWE, MWEDescID, RootMWEDesc, RootMWEDesc.Part, Token

public interface IHasForm

Items that have a textual surface form implement this interface.

Since:
jMWE 1.0.0
Version:
$Id: IHasForm.java 564 2011-05-05 19:33:58Z markaf $
Author:
M.A. Finlayson

Method Summary
 String getForm()
          Returns the object's surface form text, exactly as it appears in its original context, with capitalization intact.
 

Method Detail

getForm

String getForm()
Returns the object's surface form text, exactly as it appears in its original context, with capitalization intact. May be a single word or punctuation. The surface form may not contain whitespace or underscores. This method will never return null.

Returns:
the original text, never null.
Since:
jMWE 1.0.0


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