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package org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.assertion;

import org.apache.xerces.xs.XSObject;
import org.apache.xerces.xs.XSObjectList;
import org.apache.xerces.xs.XSTypeDefinition;

/**
 * This interface represents the XML Schema 1.1 assertion component. Assertion
 * components were first introduced in the XML Schema structures 1.1
 * specification, as a means of constraining the existence and values of 
 * related elements and attributes.
 * 
 * @xerces.internal
 * 
 * @author Mukul Gandhi, IBM
 * @version $Id$
 */
public interface XSAssert extends XSObject {

    /**
     * A sequence of [annotations] or an empty XSObjectList
     */
    public XSObjectList getAnnotations();

    /**
     * [test]: an XPath 2.0 expression
     */
    public Test getTest();

    /**
     * The type associated with the assertion
     */
    public XSTypeDefinition getTypeDefinition();
}