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package org.apache.flex.compiler.internal.parsing;

/**
 * An {@code ISourceFragment} represents a fragment of source code.
 * <p>
 * These are currently used only in MXML processing, where fragments are created for
 * entities, comments, the beginning and end of CDATA, and the text between these.
 * <p>
 * The "physical" properties of a fragment describe how it actually appears
 * in the source code. For example, the physical text of an entity might be
 * "<" and its physical starting offset, line number, and column number
 * would indicate its position within an MXML document.
 * Note that the physical end is the physical start plus the length
 * of the physical text.
 * <p>
 * The "logical" properties of a fragment describe what it means after MXML
 * pre-processing (entity evaluation, CDATA removal, MXML comment removal).
 */
public interface ISourceFragment
{
    /**
     * Gets the original text for this fragment, as it originally appeared in the file.
     */
    String getPhysicalText();
    
    /**
     * Gets the post-processed text for this fragment.
     */
    String getLogicalText();
    
    /**
     * Gets the starting offset where this fragment originally appeared in the file.
     */
    int getPhysicalStart();
    
    /**
     * Gets the line number where this fragment originally appeared in the file.
     */
    int getPhysicalLine();
    
    /**
     * Gets the column number where this fragment originally appeared in the file.
     */
    int getPhysicalColumn();
}