public interface Mapper
Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
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boolean |
canChangeEncoding(java.lang.String parent,
java.lang.String child)
Indicates whether
child can be converted to another encoding. |
java.lang.String |
map(java.lang.String parent,
java.lang.String element)
Maps from one string representation to another.
|
void |
setup(java.io.File path,
java.lang.String... options)
Perform initialization prior to the first call to
map . |
void setup(java.io.File path, java.lang.String... options)
map
.path
- A filename for data on disk used during mappingoptions
- Variable length array of strings for options. Option format may
vary for the particular class instance.java.lang.String map(java.lang.String parent, java.lang.String element)
parent
- element
's context (e.g., the parent node in a parse tree)element
- The string to be transformed.boolean canChangeEncoding(java.lang.String parent, java.lang.String child)
child
can be converted to another encoding. In the ATB, for example,
if a punctuation character is labeled with the "PUNC" POS tag, then that character should not
be converted from Buckwalter to UTF-8.parent
- element
's context (e.g., the parent node in a parse tree)child
- The string to be transformed.