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package com.sun.source.doctree;

/**

 * Common interface for all nodes in a documentation syntax tree.

 *

 * @since 1.8

 */

public interface DocTree {

    /**

     * Enumerates all kinds of trees.

     */

    enum Kind {

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link AttributeTree}

         * representing an HTML attribute.

         */

        ATTRIBUTE,

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link AuthorTree}

         * representing an @author tag.

         */

        AUTHOR("author"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link LiteralTree}

         * representing an @code tag.

         */

        CODE("code"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link CommentTree}

         * representing an HTML comment.

         */

        COMMENT,

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link DeprecatedTree}

         * representing an @deprecated tag.

         */

        DEPRECATED("deprecated"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link DocCommentTree}

         * representing a complete doc comment.

         */

        DOC_COMMENT,

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link DocRootTree}

         * representing an @docRoot tag.

         */

        DOC_ROOT("docRoot"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link EndElementTree}

         * representing the end of an HTML element.

         */

        END_ELEMENT,

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link EntityTree}

         * representing an HTML entity.

         */

        ENTITY,

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link ErroneousTree}

         * representing some invalid text.

         */

        ERRONEOUS,

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link ThrowsTree}

         * representing an @exception tag.

         */

        EXCEPTION("exception"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link IdentifierTree}

         * representing an identifier.

         */

        IDENTIFIER,

        /**

         * representing a search term.

         */

        INDEX("index"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link InheritDocTree}

         * representing an @inheritDoc tag.

         */

        INHERIT_DOC("inheritDoc"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link LinkTree}

         * representing an @link tag.

         */

        LINK("link"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link LinkTree}

         * representing an @linkplain tag.

         */

        LINK_PLAIN("linkplain"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link LiteralTree}

         * representing an @literal tag.

         */

        LITERAL("literal"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link ParamTree}

         * representing an @param tag.

         */

        PARAM("param"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link ReferenceTree}

         * representing a reference to a element in the

         * Java programming language.

         */

        REFERENCE,

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link ReturnTree}

         * representing an @return tag.

         */

        RETURN("return"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link SeeTree}

         * representing an @see tag.

         */

        SEE("see"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link SerialTree}

         * representing an @serial tag.

         */

        SERIAL("serial"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link SerialDataTree}

         * representing an @serialData tag.

         */

        SERIAL_DATA("serialData"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link SerialFieldTree}

         * representing an @serialField tag.

         */

        SERIAL_FIELD("serialField"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link SinceTree}

         * representing an @since tag.

         */

        SINCE("since"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link EndElementTree}

         * representing the start of an HTML element.

         */

        START_ELEMENT,

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link TextTree}

         * representing some documentation text.

         */

        TEXT,

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link ThrowsTree}

         * representing an @throws tag.

         */

        THROWS("throws"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link UnknownBlockTagTree}

         * representing an unknown block tag.

         */

        UNKNOWN_BLOCK_TAG,

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link UnknownInlineTagTree}

         * representing an unknown inline tag.

         */

        UNKNOWN_INLINE_TAG,

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link ValueTree}

         * representing an @value tag.

         */

        VALUE("value"),

        /**

         * Used for instances of {@link VersionTree}

         * representing an @version tag.

         */

        VERSION("version"),

        /**

         * An implementation-reserved node. This is the not the node

         * you are looking for.

         */

        OTHER;

        /**

         * The name of the tag, if any, associated with this kind of node.

         */

        public final String tagName;

        Kind() {

            tagName = null;

        }

        Kind(String tagName) {

            this.tagName = tagName;

        }

    }

    /**

     * Returns the kind of this tree.

     *

     * @return the kind of this tree.

     */

    Kind getKind();

    /**

     * Accept method used to implement the visitor pattern.  The

     * visitor pattern is used to implement operations on trees.

     *

     * @param <R> result type of this operation.

     * @param <D> type of additional data.

     * @param visitor the visitor to be called

     * @param data a parameter value to be passed to the visitor method

     * @return the value returned from the visitor method

     */

    <R, D> R accept(DocTreeVisitor<R,D> visitor, D data);

}