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+/*
+ * Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Sun designates this
+ * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
+ * by Sun in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
+ *
+ * This code 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
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara,
+ * CA 95054 USA or visit www.sun.com if you need additional information or
+ * have any questions.
+ */
+
+package com.sun.xml.internal.xsom;
+
+import org.xml.sax.Locator;
+import com.sun.xml.internal.xsom.parser.AnnotationParser;
+
+/**
+ * <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#Annotation_details">
+ * XML Schema annotation</a>.
+ *
+ *
+ */
+public interface XSAnnotation
+{
+    /**
+     * Obtains the application-parsed annotation.
+     * <p>
+     * annotations are parsed by the user-specified
+     * {@link AnnotationParser}.
+     *
+     * @return may return null
+     */
+    Object getAnnotation();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a location information of the annotation.
+     */
+    Locator getLocator();
+}