net.ontopia.topicmaps.schema.core
Interface SchemaReaderIF

All Known Implementing Classes:

OSLSchemaReader

public interface SchemaReaderIF

PUBLIC: Schema readers can read instances of a topic map schema from some implicitly specified source and return object structures representing the schema.

Method Summary

SchemaIF

read() PUBLIC: Reads the schema from the data source and returns the object structure.

Method Detail

read

SchemaIF read()
              throws IOException,
                     SchemaSyntaxException

PUBLIC: Reads the schema from the data source and returns the object structure.

Throws:

IOException - Thrown if there are problems with the data source while reading the schema.

SAXException - Thrown if the schema is not well-formed XML.

SchemaSyntaxException - Thrown if the schema violates the schema language syntax.