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package javax.xml.bind;

/**

 * Encapsulate the location of a ValidationEvent.

 *

 * <p>

 * validation that was being performed when the error or warning was detected.

 * For example, on-demand validation would produce locators that contained

 * references to objects in the Java content tree while unmarshal-time

 * validation would produce locators containing information appropriate to the

 * source of the XML data (file, url, Node, etc).

 *

 * @see Validator

 * @see ValidationEvent

 * @since 1.6, JAXB 1.0

 */

public interface ValidationEventLocator {

    /**

     * Return the name of the XML source as a URL if available

     *

     * @return the name of the XML source as a URL or null if unavailable

     */

    public java.net.URL getURL();

    /**

     * Return the byte offset if available

     *

     * @return the byte offset into the input source or -1 if unavailable

     */

    public int getOffset();

    /**

     * Return the line number if available

     *

     * @return the line number or -1 if unavailable

     */

    public int getLineNumber();

    /**

     * Return the column number if available

     *

     * @return the column number or -1 if unavailable

     */

    public int getColumnNumber();

    /**

     * Return a reference to the object in the Java content tree if available

     *

     * @return a reference to the object in the Java content tree or null if

     *         unavailable

     */

    public java.lang.Object getObject();

    /**

     * Return a reference to the DOM Node if available

     *

     * @return a reference to the DOM Node or null if unavailable

     */

    public org.w3c.dom.Node getNode();

}