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* Copyright (c) 2002, 2009 IBM Corporation and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
* Jens Lukowski/Innoopract - initial renaming/restructuring
*
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.contentmodel;
/**
* CMDataType
*/
public interface CMDataType extends CMNode {
// todo... at some point we should remove these names to
// avoid exposing implementation details via the interfaces
//
static final String CDATA = "CDATA"; //$NON-NLS-1$
static final String ID = "ID"; //$NON-NLS-1$
static final String IDREF = "IDREF"; //$NON-NLS-1$
static final String IDREFS = "IDREFS"; //$NON-NLS-1$
static final String ENTITY = "ENTITY"; //$NON-NLS-1$
static final String ENTITIES = "ENTITIES"; //$NON-NLS-1$
static final String NOTATION = "NOTATION"; //$NON-NLS-1$
static final String NMTOKEN = "NMTOKEN"; //$NON-NLS-1$
static final String NMTOKENS = "NMTOKENS"; //$NON-NLS-1$
static final String NUMBER = "NUMBER"; //$NON-NLS-1$
static final String URI = "URI"; //$NON-NLS-1$
static final String ENUM = "ENUM"; //$NON-NLS-1$
static final int IMPLIED_VALUE_NONE = 1;
static final int IMPLIED_VALUE_FIXED = 2;
static final int IMPLIED_VALUE_DEFAULT = 3;
/**
* getTypeName method
* @return java.lang.String
*/
String getDataTypeName();
/**
* getImpliedValueKind method
* @return int
*
* Returns one of :
* IMPLIED_VALUE_NONE, IMPLIED_VALUE_FIXED, IMPLIED_VALUE_DEFAULT.
*/
int getImpliedValueKind();
/**
* getTypeName method
* @return java.lang.String
*
* Returns the implied value or null if none exists.
*/
String getImpliedValue();
/**
* getTypeName method
* @return java.lang.String[]
*
*/
String[] getEnumeratedValues();
/**
* getTypeName method
* @return java.lang.String
*
* This method returns a suitable default value that can be used when an instance of the data type is created.
* This returns null of a suitable default is not available.
*/
String generateInstanceValue();
}