/*
* GeoTools - The Open Source Java GIS Toolkit
* http://geotools.org
*
* (C) 2004-2008, Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
* version 2.1 of the License.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*/
package org.geotools.xml.schema;
/**
* <p>
* This interface is intended to represent a Sequence in an XML Schema. This
* shildren of this sequence are ElementGroupings which may involve Element
* declarations, Choices, Groups ... or even another Sequence. We recommend
* flattening child Sequences with the parent, creating a semantically
* equivalent sequence in it's place.
* </p>
*
* @author dzwiers www.refractions.net
*
* @see ElementGrouping
* @source $URL$
*/
public interface Sequence extends ElementGrouping {
/**
* <p>
* This method returns an ORDERED list of children. The children in the
* list may be singular elements, sequences, choices, ... , or groups.
* </p>
*
*/
public ElementGrouping[] getChildren();
/**
* <p>
* The Schema ID for this sequence definition.
* </p>
*
*/
public String getId();
/**
* @see org.geotools.xml.xsi.ElementGrouping#getMaxOccurs()
*/
public int getMaxOccurs();
/**
* @see org.geotools.xml.xsi.ElementGrouping#getMinOccurs()
*/
public int getMinOccurs();
}