An editable form of an issue's state. Only the associated attributes
may be changed. Everything else is hard-coded by the owning PMT.
author: Matt Albrecht groboclown@users.sourceforge.net version: $Date: 2003/02/10 22:51:58 $ since: July 12, 2002
getEditableAttributes() A synonymn for getAttributes(), but explicitly declares that
the returned attributes are editable, without the need for a cast.