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The Grammar.java Java example source code

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package com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.xni.grammars;

/**
 * A generic grammar for use in validating XML documents. The Grammar
 * object stores the validation information in a compiled form. Specific
 * subclasses extend this class and "populate" the grammar by compiling
 * the specific syntax (DTD, Schema, etc) into the data structures used
 * by this object.
 * <p>
 * <strong>Note: The Grammar object is not useful as a generic
 * grammar access or query object. In other words, you cannot round-trip
 * specific grammar syntaxes with the compiled grammar information in
 * the Grammar object. You <em>can create equivalent validation
 * rules in your choice of grammar syntax but there is no guarantee that
 * the input and output will be the same.
 *
 * <p> Right now, this class is largely a shell; eventually,
 * it will be enriched by having more expressive methods added. </p>
 * will be moved from dtd.Grammar here.
 *
 * @author Jeffrey Rodriguez, IBM
 * @author Eric Ye, IBM
 * @author Andy Clark, IBM
 * @author Neil Graham, IBM
 *
 */

public interface Grammar {

    /**
     * get the <code>XMLGrammarDescription associated with this
     * object
     */
    public XMLGrammarDescription getGrammarDescription ();
} // interface Grammar