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* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
*
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package org.hibernate.sql.ordering.antlr;
/**
* General contract for AST nodes.
*
* @author Steve Ebersole
*/
public interface Node {
/**
* Get the intrinsic text of this node.
*
* @return The node's text.
*/
public String getText();
/**
* Get a string representation of this node usable for debug logging or similar.
*
* @return The node's debugging text.
*/
public String getDebugText();
/**
* Build the node's representation for use in the resulting rendering.
*
* @return The renderable text.
*/
public String getRenderableText();
}