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Xerces2 is the next generation of high performance, fully compliant XML parsers in the Apache Xerces family. This new version of Xerces introduces the Xerces Native Interface (XNI), a complete framework for building parser components and configurations that is extremely modular and easy to program. The Apache Xerces2 parser is the reference implementation of XNI but other parser components, configurations, and parsers can be written using the Xerces Native Interface. For complete design and implementation documents, refer to the XNI Manual. Xerces2 is a fully conforming XML Schema 1.0 processor. A partial experimental implementation of the XML Schema 1.1 Structures and Datatypes Working Drafts (December 2009) and an experimental implementation of the XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component Designators (SCD) Candidate Recommendation (January 2010) are provided for evaluation. For more information, refer to the XML Schema page. Xerces2 also provides a complete implementation of the Document Object Model Level 3 Core and Load/Save W3C Recommendations and provides a complete implementation of the XML Inclusions (XInclude) W3C Recommendation. It also provides support for OASIS XML Catalogs v1.1. Xerces2 is able to parse documents written according to the XML 1.1 Recommendation, except that it does not yet provide an option to enable normalization checking as described in section 2.13 of this specification. It also handles namespaces according to the XML Namespaces 1.1 Recommendation, and will correctly serialize XML 1.1 documents if the DOM level 3 load/save APIs are in use.

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package org.apache.xerces.xs;

import org.w3c.dom.DOMConfiguration;
import org.w3c.dom.ls.LSInput;

/**
 * An interface that provides a method to load XML Schema documents. This 
 * interface uses the DOM Level 3 Core and Load and Save interfaces.
 */
public interface XSLoader {
    /**
     *  The configuration of a document. It maintains a table of recognized 
     * parameters. Using the configuration, it is possible to change the 
     * behavior of the load methods. The configuration may support the 
     * setting of and the retrieval of the following non-boolean parameters 
     * defined on the DOMConfiguration interface: 
     * error-handler (DOMErrorHandler) and 
     * resource-resolver (LSResourceResolver). 
     * 
 The following list of boolean parameters is defined: 
     * 
     * 
     * "validate"
     * 
     * 
     * true
     * [required] (default) Validate an XML 
     * Schema during loading. If validation errors are found, the error 
     * handler is notified. 
     * false
     * [optional] Do not 
     * report errors during the loading of an XML Schema document. 
     * 
     * 
     */
    public DOMConfiguration getConfig();

    /**
     * Parses the content of XML Schema documents specified as the list of URI 
     * references. If the URI contains a fragment identifier, the behavior 
     * is not defined by this specification. 
     * @param uriList The list of URI locations.
     * @return An XSModel representing the schema documents.
     */
    public XSModel loadURIList(StringList uriList);

    /**
     *  Parses the content of XML Schema documents specified as a list of 
     * LSInputs. 
     * @param is  The list of LSInputs from which the XML 
     *   Schema documents are to be read. 
     * @return An XSModel representing the schema documents.
     */
    public XSModel loadInputList(LSInputList is);

    /**
     * Parse an XML Schema document from a location identified by a URI 
     * reference. If the URI contains a fragment identifier, the behavior is 
     * not defined by this specification. 
     * @param uri The location of the XML Schema document to be read.
     * @return An XSModel representing this schema.
     */
    public XSModel loadURI(String uri);

    /**
     *  Parse an XML Schema document from a resource identified by a 
     * LSInput . 
     * @param is  The LSInput from which the source 
     *   document is to be read. 
     * @return An XSModel representing this schema.
     */
    public XSModel load(LSInput is);

}