Tag.java

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package org.brixcms.markup.tag;

import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Represents an HTML tag.
 *
 * @author Matej Knopp
 * @see ComponentTag
 */
public interface Tag extends Item {
    /**
     * Returns map of tag attributes. The result map does not have to be modifiable.
     */
    public Map<String, String> getAttributeMap();

    /**
     * Returns the name of this tag ("a", "p", "br", "input", etc.).
     *
     * @return
     */
    public String getName();

    /**
     * Returns the type of this tag.
     *
     * @return
     */
    public Type getType();

    /**
     * Tag type
     *
     * @author Matej Knopp
     */
    public enum Type {
        OPEN, CLOSE, OPEN_CLOSE
    }
}