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* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.internal.util.xml;
import java.io.Serializable;
/**
* Describes the origin of an xml document
*
* @author Steve Ebersole
*/
public interface Origin extends Serializable {
/**
* Retrieve the type of origin. This is not a discrete set, but might be somethign like
* {@code file} for file protocol URLs, or {@code resource} for classpath resource lookups.
*
* @return The origin type.
*/
public String getType();
/**
* The name of the document origin. Interpretation is relative to the type, but might be the
* resource name or file URL.
*
* @return The name.
*/
public String getName();
}