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* Copyright (c) 2007 Red Hat, Inc.
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* This program is 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
*
* Contributor:
* Red Hat, Inc. - initial API and implementation
******************************************************************************/
package org.jboss.tools.common.text;
import org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource;
/**
* An interface of seam tools model object that has text source.
* @author Alexey Kazakov
*/
public interface ITextSourceReference {
/**
* @return start position of element in text
*/
int getStartPosition();
/**
* @return number of characters of element in text
*/
int getLength();
/**
*
* @return resource to which this object references; may return null, if this object references source that is not a IResource object
*/
IResource getResource();
}