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Defines concepts and classes that are at the core of data manipulation and definition.

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/*
 * Copyright [2014] [Eric Poitras]
 *
 *     Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 *     you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 *     You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
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 *     See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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package org.dbrain.data.text;

/**
 * A format can produce a textual representation of an entity and also, create an entity from a textual representation.
 *
 * It is required that the value produces by the method format can be parsed by the parse method.
 */
public interface Format extends Formatter, Parser {


}