PatternConsumer (DatenbankExplorer API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

HyphenationTree, PatternParser
```
public interface PatternConsumer
```
This interface is used to connect the XML pattern file parser to the hyphenation tree.

This work was authored by Carlos Villegas (cav@uniscope.co.jp).

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`addClass(String chargroup)`	Add a character class.
`void`	`addException(String word, List hyphenatedword)`	Add a hyphenation exception.
`void`	`addPattern(String pattern, String values)`	Add hyphenation patterns.

- Method Detail
  - addClass
```
void addClass(String chargroup)
```
    Add a character class. A character class defines characters that are considered equivalent for the purpose of hyphenation (e.g. "aA"). It usually means to ignore case.
    
    Parameters:
    
    chargroup - character group
  - addException
```
void addException(String word,
                  List hyphenatedword)
```
    Add a hyphenation exception. An exception replaces the result obtained by the algorithm for cases for which this fails or the user wants to provide his own hyphenation. A hyphenatedword is a vector of alternating String's and Hyphen instances
    
    Parameters:
    
    word - word to add as an exception
    
    hyphenatedword - pre-hyphenated word
  - addPattern
```
void addPattern(String pattern,
                String values)
```
    Add hyphenation patterns.
    
    Parameters:
    
    pattern - the pattern
    
    values - interletter values expressed as a string of digit characters.