/**
*#########################################################################
*
* A component of the Gatherer application, part of the Greenstone digital
* library suite from the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the
* University of Waikato, New Zealand.
*
*
*
* Author: Katherine Don, New Zealand Digital Library Project,
* University of Waikato
*
*
*
* Copyright (C) 2006 New Zealand Digital Library Project
*
*
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
*
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
*
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
*########################################################################
*/
package org.greenstone.gatherer.gems;
import org.greenstone.gatherer.Configuration;
import java.util.ArrayList;
/** this is used as a base class for MetadataSetInfo and MetadataElementModel
* Both of thesee have some attributes which are language independent, and
* some which are language dependent
*/
public class AttributeContainer {
protected ArrayList attributes;
protected ArrayList language_dependent_attributes;
String [] required_attribute_names = null;
String [] language_dependent_attribute_names = null;
public AttributeContainer() {}
public AttributeContainer(String [] required_atts, String []lang_dependent_atts) {
attributes = new ArrayList();
language_dependent_attributes = new ArrayList();
if (required_atts != null) {
required_attribute_names = required_atts;
for(int i=0;i