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/* $Id$ */

package org.apache.fop.render.afp.extensions;

import org.apache.fop.fo.PropertyList;
import org.apache.fop.fo.properties.Property;
import org.apache.fop.fo.properties.StringProperty;

/**
 * This class extends the org.apache.fop.fo.StringProperty.Maker inner class
 * in order to provide a static property maker. The object facilitates
 * extraction of attributes from formatted objects based on the static list
 * as defined in the AFPElementMapping implementation.
 * <p>
 */
public class AFPAttribute extends StringProperty.Maker {

    /**
     * The attribute property.
     */
    private Property property;

    /**
     * Constructor for the AFPAttribute.
     * @param name The attribute name
     */
    protected AFPAttribute(String name) {
        super(0);
        property = null;
    }

    /**
     * Overide the make method to return the property object
     * @param propertyList the property list from which to make the property
     * @return property The property object.
     */
    public Property make(PropertyList propertyList) {
        if (property == null) {
            property = make(propertyList, "", propertyList.getParentFObj());
        }
        return property;
    }
}
