Body.java

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2011 Laurent Caillette
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either
 * version 3 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, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */
package org.novelang.novelist;

/**
 * Represents a collection of {@link TextElement}s like {@link Sentence}s that form a continuous
 * sequence of paragraphs.
 * In the future this class will contain images or tables.
 *
 * @author Laurent Caillette
 */
public class Body implements TextElement {

  private final Iterable< TextElement > textElements ;

  public Body( final Iterable< TextElement > textElements ) {
    this.textElements = textElements ;
  }

  @Override
  public String getLiteral() {
    final StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder() ;
    for( final TextElement textElement : textElements ) {
      text.append( textElement.getLiteral() ) ;
    }
    return text.toString() ;
  }

  public static final TextElement INTERSTICE = new TextElement() {
    @Override
    public String getLiteral() {
      return "\n\n" ;
    }
  } ;


}