MetadataFormat.java

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package fedora.oai;

/**
 * Describes a metadata format.
 * 
 * @author Chris Wilper
 * @see <a
 *      href="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html#ListMetadataFormats">
 *      http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html#ListMetadataFormats</a>
 */
public interface MetadataFormat {

    /**
     * Get the prefix of the format.
     */
    public abstract String getPrefix();

    /**
     * Get the URL of the schema.
     */
    public abstract String getSchemaLocation();

    /**
     * Get the URI of the namespace.
     */
    public abstract String getNamespaceURI();

}