/*   Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
 *
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 *
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package org.apache.xmlbeans;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;

/**
 * Represents a Schema annotation.
 */
public interface SchemaAnnotation extends SchemaComponent
{
    /**
     * Retrieves all application information items from this annotation
     */
    public XmlObject[] getApplicationInformation();

    /**
     * Retrieves all document information items from this annotation
     */
    public XmlObject[] getUserInformation();

    /**
     * Retrieves all attributes that are is a namespace other than
     * http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
     * from the annotation element and from the enclosing Schema component
     */
    public Attribute[] getAttributes();

    /**
     * Represents an attribute instance
     */
    public static interface Attribute
    {
        /**
         * Returns the name of the attribute
         */
        QName getName();

        /**
         * Returns the value of the attribute
         */
        String getValue();

        /**
         * In case the value of this attribute is a QName,
         * returns the URI to which the prefix in the value is bound
         */
        String getValueUri();
    }
}