trunk/odfdom/src/main/java/org/odftoolkit/odfdom/pkg/ValidationConstraint.java

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package org.odftoolkit.odfdom.pkg;

/**
 * A <code>ValidationConstraint</code> is used to collect validation conditions and their return messages in case not appliance (invalid condition).
 */
public interface ValidationConstraint {

	 /**
     * Creates a localized description of a Constraint.
     * Subclasses may override this method in order to produce a
     * locale-specific message.  For subclasses that do not override this
     * method, the default implementation returns the same result as
     * <code>getMessage()</code>.
     *
     * @return  The localized description of this constraint. */
	
	public String getLocalizedMessage();


    /**
     * Returns the detail message string of this Constraint.
     *
     * @return  the detail message string of this <tt>Constraint</tt> instance
     *          (which may be <tt>null</tt>).
     */
	public String getMessage();
}