package com.thaiopensource.validate;
import com.thaiopensource.validate.SchemaReader;
/**
* A factory for SchemaReader. A class that implements this interface can be
* automatically discovered by SchemaReaderLoader, if it has
* a 0-argument constructor and if its name is listed in the file
* <code>META-INF/services/com.thaiopensource.validate.SchemaReaderFactory</code>.
*
* @see SchemaReaderLoader
* @see SchemaReader
*/
public interface SchemaReaderFactory {
/**
* Creates a SchemaReader for a particular schema language.
*
* @param namespaceUri a String identifing the schema language; must not be <code>null</code>;
* for schema languages that use XML, this should be the namespace URI
* of the root element if the root element has a non-absent namespace URI
*
* @return a SchemaReader for the specified schema language, or <code>null</code>,
* if this SchemaReaderFactory cannot create a SchemaReader for the specified
* schema language
*/
public SchemaReader createSchemaReader(String namespaceUri);
Option getOption(String uri);
}