/*
* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
*
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package org.hibernate.usertype;
/**
* A custom type that may function as an identifier or
* discriminator type, or may be marshalled to and from
* an XML document
*
* @author Gavin King
*/
public interface EnhancedUserType extends UserType {
/**
* Return an SQL literal representation of the value
*/
public String objectToSQLString(Object value);
/**
* Return a string representation of this value, as it
* should appear in an XML document
*/
public String toXMLString(Object value);
/**
* Parse a string representation of this value, as it
* appears in an XML document
*/
public Object fromXMLString(String xmlValue);
}