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package jdk8u.jaxp.org.apache.xerces.external.xs;

/**
 * This interface represents the Annotation schema component.
 */
public interface XSAnnotation extends XSObject {
    // TargetType
    /**
     * The object type is org.w3c.dom.Element.
     */
    public static final short W3C_DOM_ELEMENT           = 1;
    /**
     * The object type is org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.
     */
    public static final short SAX_CONTENTHANDLER        = 2;
    /**
     * The object type is org.w3c.dom.Document.
     */
    public static final short W3C_DOM_DOCUMENT          = 3;

    /**
     *  Write contents of the annotation to the specified object. If the
     * specified target is a DOM object, in-scope namespace
     * declarations for annotation element are added as
     * attribute nodes of the serialized annotation, otherwise
     * the corresponding events for all in-scope namespace declarations are
     * sent via the specified document handler.
     * @param target  A target pointer to the annotation target object, i.e.
     *   org.w3c.dom.Document, org.w3c.dom.Element
     *   , org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.
     * @param targetType  A target type.
     * @return  True if the target is a recognized type and
     *   supported by this implementation, otherwise false.
     */
    public boolean writeAnnotation(Object target,
                                   short targetType);

    /**
     * A text representation of the annotation.
     */
    public String getAnnotationString();

}