ucar.ncx.jdom
Interface NcxJDOMEncoder

All Known Implementing Classes:

NcxGenericJDOMEncoder

public interface NcxJDOMEncoder

Interface representing the required functionality of any java class which extracts xml metadata from a file in netcdf format and returns JDOM objects.

Method Summary

org.jdom.Element	encodeAttribute(ucar.nc2.Attribute a) Method to encode a netcdf Attribute object as an xml attribute tag
org.jdom.Element	encodeDimension(ucar.nc2.Dimension d) Method to encode a netcdf Dimension object as an xml dimension tag
org.jdom.Element	encodeVariable(ucar.nc2.Variable v) Method to encode a netcdf Variable object as an xml variable tag

Method Detail

encodeDimension

public org.jdom.Element encodeDimension(ucar.nc2.Dimension d)

Method to encode a netcdf Dimension object as an xml dimension tag

Parameters:

d - netcdf dimension object to be encoded

Returns:

xml dimension tag as JDOM Element object

encodeVariable

public org.jdom.Element encodeVariable(ucar.nc2.Variable v)

Method to encode a netcdf Variable object as an xml variable tag

Parameters:

v - netcdf variable object to be encoded

Returns:

xml variable tag as DOM Element object

encodeAttribute

public org.jdom.Element encodeAttribute(ucar.nc2.Attribute a)

Method to encode a netcdf Attribute object as an xml attribute tag

Parameters:

a - netcdf attribute object to be encoded

Returns:

xml attribute tag as JDOM Element object