1 /*
2 * Copyright 2008 the original author or authors.
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16
17 package org.springframework.xml.xsd;
18
19 import java.io.IOException;
20
21 import org.springframework.xml.validation.XmlValidator;
22
23 /**
24 * Represents an abstraction for a collection of XSD schemas.
25 *
26 * @author Arjen Poutsma
27 * @since 1.5.0
28 */
29 public interface XsdSchemaCollection {
30
31 /**
32 * Returns all schemas contained in this collection.
33 *
34 * @return the schemas contained in this collection
35 */
36 XsdSchema[] getXsdSchemas();
37
38 /**
39 * Creates a {@link XmlValidator} based on the schemas contained in this collection.
40 *
41 * @return a validator for this collection
42 * @throws IOException in case of I/O errors
43 */
44 XmlValidator createValidator() throws IOException;
45
46 }