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package org.apache.xerces.xs;

/**
 * This interface represents an openContent.
 * 
 * @author Khaled Noaman, IBM
 * @version $Id$
 */
public interface XSOpenContent extends XSObject {

	/**
     * Mode type
     */
    public static final short MODE_NONE       = 0;
    public static final short MODE_INTERLEAVE = 1;
    public static final short MODE_SUFFIX     = 2;

    /**
     * A mode type: none, interleave, suffix. 
     */
    public short getModeType();

    /**
     * A wildcard declaration
     */
    public XSWildcard getWildcard();
    
    /**
     * A flag that indicates whether a default open content is applied
     * when the content type of a complex type declaration is empty
     */
    // TODO: do we have two different implementations (i.e. XSOenContentDecl and XSDefaultOpenContentDecl)
    //       and add that method only to XSDefaultOpenContentDecl
    public boolean appliesToEmpty();

}