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package org.codehaus.stax2.validation;
/**
* Interface that is used to allow validators to do attribute defaulting.
* That is, to allow specific post-processing for elements, such that after
* all attribute values that an xml element has have been processed, it
* is possible to add new attribute/value pairs in cases where attribute
* only has a default value in DTD or W3C Schema.
*/
public interface AttributeContainer
{
/**
* @return Number of atributes container contains currently. Can be used
* to determine the index number for the next attribute to be added.
*/
public int getAttributeCount();
/**
* Method that can be used to add a new attribute value for an attribute
* that was not yet contained by the container, as part of using attribute
* default value mechanism.
*
* Note: caller has to ensure that the addition would not introduce a
* duplicate; attribute container implementation is not required to do
* any validation on attribute name (local name, prefix, uri) or value.
*
* @return Index of the newly added attribute.
*/
public int addDefaultAttribute(String localName, String uri, String prefix,
String value);
}