/* XsdType.java -- Representation of an XML schema datatype. Copyright (C) 2005 The University of Sheffield. This file is part of the CASheW-s editor. The CASheW-s editor is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. The CASheW-s editor 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 General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with The CASheW-s editor; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. */ package nongnu.cashews.xml.schema; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Node; /** * Specifies that a class represents an XML schema data type. * * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org) */ public interface XsdType { /** * Translates a value represented in a Java data type * to the appropriate value in this XML schema data type. * * @param document the XML document to use to create the XML tree. * @param value the value to translate. * @return an XML tree node representing the type. */ Node translateValue(Document document, T value); }