001/* TypeInfoProvider.java -- 002 Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 01902110-1301 USA. 020 021Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024combination. 025 026As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038package javax.xml.validation; 039 040import org.w3c.dom.TypeInfo; 041 042/** 043 * Provides access to the PSVI type info supplied by 044 * <code>ValidatorHandler</code>. 045 * 046 * @author (a href='mailto:dog@gnu.org'>Chris Burdess</a) 047 * @since 1.3 048 */ 049public abstract class TypeInfoProvider 050{ 051 052 protected TypeInfoProvider() 053 { 054 } 055 056 /** 057 * Returns the type information for the current element. 058 */ 059 public abstract TypeInfo getElementTypeInfo(); 060 061 /** 062 * Returns the type information for the specified attribute of the current 063 * element. 064 * @param index the attribute index as for the Attributes object passed to 065 * the startElement callback 066 */ 067 public abstract TypeInfo getAttributeTypeInfo(int index); 068 069 /** 070 * Indicates if the attribute at the specified index is of the ID type. 071 * @param index the attribute index as for the Attributes object passed to 072 * the startElement callback 073 */ 074 public abstract boolean isIdAttribute(int index); 075 076 /** 077 * Returns false if the attribute was defaulted (added by the validator). 078 * @param index the attribute index as for the Attributes object passed to 079 * the startElement callback 080 */ 081 public abstract boolean isSpecified(int index); 082 083}