Uses of Class
edu.nyu.jet.pat.PatternElement

Packages that use PatternElement

Package	Description
edu.nyu.jet.pat	The Pat package encapsulates the basic pattern application mechanism of Jet, sets of pattern/action rules which can be applied to a document to add or modify annotations on the document. The external form of the pattern language is described below; the classes used to encode these patterns are summarized separately.

Uses of PatternElement in edu.nyu.jet.pat

Subclasses of PatternElement in edu.nyu.jet.pat

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
class	AnnotationPatternElement A pattern element which matches an annotation.
class	AssignmentPatternElement a pattern element which assigns a value (a String or integer) to a pattern variable.
class	AtomicPatternElement abstract class for all PatternElements which do not contain embedded references to other PatternElements.
class	GetEndPatternElement
class	GetStartPatternElement a pattern element, in the graph representation of a pattern, which binds a variable to the current position in the document being matched.
class	IntegerPatternElement a pattern element which matches an integer token.
class	NullPatternElement a pattern element which always succeeds.
class	PatternAlternation a pattern element for recording an alternation of patterns (A | B | C).
class	PatternReference an element in a pattern which stands for a reference to another pattern.
class	PatternRepetition a pattern element for representing an optional or repeated pattern, A? (zero or one instance of A), A* (zero or more instances of A), or A+ (one or more instances of A).
class	PatternSequence a sequence of pattern elements which are to be matched in succession, to successive portions of a document.
class	SpanBindingPatternElement a pattern construct which binds a variable to the span matched by a pattern element.
class	TokenStringPatternElement a pattern element which matches a specific word.
class	UndefinedCapPatternElement

Methods in edu.nyu.jet.pat that return PatternElement

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
PatternElement	PatternCollection.dereference(String patternName) returns pattern named patternName, or null if no such pattern exists (alias for getPattern)
PatternElement	PatternCollection.getPattern(String patternName) returns pattern named patternName, or null if no such pattern exists

Constructors in edu.nyu.jet.pat with parameters of type PatternElement

Constructor and Description
PatternAlternation(PatternElement[] opts)
PatternRepetition(PatternElement pe, char rep)
PatternSequence(PatternElement[] elems) creates a PatternSequence from an array of PatternElements
SpanBindingPatternElement(PatternElement pe, Variable v) creates a SpanBindingPatternElement.