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037
038 package javax.xml.validation;
039
040 import 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 */
049 public 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 }